N34

N34: Urethritis and urethral syndrome

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

N34 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for urethritis and urethral syndrome. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

Reiter's disease (M02.3-)
urethritis in diseases with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission (A50-A64)
urethrotrigonitis (N30.3-)

Use additional code

Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.

Other codes that can never be billed with N34

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

N39.0Urinary tract infection, site not specified

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead N34

4 child codes. Green means billable.