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N99.521

Infection of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Infection of other external stoma of urinary tract
  2. FY2017 Description revised Infection of other external stoma of urinary tract Infection 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)

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.

Codes in the same group

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