N46.0

N46.0: Azoospermia

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

N46.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for azoospermia. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Absolute male infertility
Male infertility due to germinal (cell) aplasia
Male infertility due to spermatogenic arrest (complete)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above N46.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on N46: Male infertility

vasectomy status (Z98.52)

Other codes that can never be billed with N46.0

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

Z98.5Sterilization status
R86Abnormal findings in specimens from male genital organs
E29Testicular dysfunction

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 N46.0

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under N46