N35.9

N35.9: Urethral stricture, unspecified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

N35.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for urethral stricture, unspecified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above N35.9

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on N35: Urethral stricture

congenital urethral stricture (Q64.3-)
postprocedural urethral stricture (N99.1-)

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 N35.9

2 child codes. Green means billable.

N35.91Urethral stricture, unspecified, male
N35.92Unspecified urethral stricture, female

Other codes under N35

N35.0Post-traumatic urethral stricture
N35.1Postinfective urethral stricture, not elsewhere classified
N35.8Other urethral stricture