Complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

N99.520 Hemorrhage of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
N99.521 Infection of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
N99.522 Malfunction of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
N99.523 Herniation of incontinent stoma of urinary tract
N99.524 Stenosis of incontinent stoma of urinary tract
N99.528 Other complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Complication of other external stoma of urinary tract
FY2017 Description revised ~~Complication of other external stoma of urinary tract~~ Complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract

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)

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N99.51	Complication of cystostomy	Not billable
N99.53	Complication of continent stoma of urinary tract	Not billable