N70.1

N70.1: Chronic salpingitis and oophoritis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

N70.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for chronic salpingitis and oophoritis. 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.

Hydrosalpinx

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above N70.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on N70: Salpingitis and oophoritis

gonococcal infection (A54.24)
tuberculous infection (A18.17)

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 N70.1

3 child codes. Green means billable.

N70.11Chronic salpingitis
N70.12Chronic oophoritis
N70.13Chronic salpingitis and oophoritis

Other codes under N70

N70.0Acute salpingitis and oophoritis
N70.9Salpingitis and oophoritis, unspecified