ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N99 › N99 Intraoperative and postprocedural... › N99.3
Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from N99 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- irradiation cystitis (N30.4-)
- postoophorectomy osteoporosis with current pathological fracture (M80.8-)
- postoophorectomy osteoporosis without current pathological fracture (M81.8)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Disorder > postprocedural
- Complication > postoperative
- Disorder > eye > postprocedural
- Falling, falls > any organ or part
- Complication > male genital > postprocedural or postoperative
- Inversion > vagina
- Prolapse, prolapsed > vagina > posthysterectomy
- Complication > surgical procedure > vaginal vault prolapse
- Complication > genitourinary > postprocedural > vaginal > vault prolapse
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N99.0 | Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure | Valid |
| N99.1 | Postprocedural urethral stricture | Not billable |
| N99.2 | Postprocedural adhesions of vagina | Valid |
| N99.4 | Postprocedural pelvic peritoneal adhesions | Valid |
| N99.5 | Complications of stoma of urinary tract | Not billable |
| N99.6 | Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a genitourinary system organ or structure complicating a procedure | Not billable |
| N99.7 | Accidental puncture and laceration of a genitourinary system organ or structure during a procedure | Not billable |
| N99.8 | Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system | Not billable |