N49.9 — Inflammatory disorder of unspecified male genital organ
N49.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for inflammatory disorder of unspecified male genital organ. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Abscess of unspecified male genital organ
- Boil of unspecified male genital organ
- Carbuncle of unspecified male genital organ
- Cellulitis of unspecified male genital organ
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above N49.9
These are not written on N49.9, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing N49.9 with anything listed here is a denial.
Risk adjustment
N49.9 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
N49.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How N49.9 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to N49.9.
- Abscess›genital organ or tract›male
- Cellulitis›genital organ NEC›male
- Infection, infected, infective›genital organ or tract›male
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory›genital organ›male
Code history
N49.9 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share N49. If N49.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about N49.9
- Is N49.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. N49.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does N49.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99), in the block Diseases of male genital organs (N40-N53).
- What cannot be coded together with N49.9?
- N49.9 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above N49.9 (N49) and apply to it just the same.