N73

N73: Other female pelvic inflammatory diseases

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

N73 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other female pelvic inflammatory diseases. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

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

Other codes that can never be billed with N73

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

K65Peritonitis

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 N73

9 child codes. Green means billable.

N73.0Acute parametritis and pelvic cellulitis
N73.1Chronic parametritis and pelvic cellulitis
N73.2Unspecified parametritis and pelvic cellulitis
N73.3Female acute pelvic peritonitis
N73.4Female chronic pelvic peritonitis
N73.5Female pelvic peritonitis, unspecified
N73.6Female pelvic peritoneal adhesions (postinfective)
N73.8Other specified female pelvic inflammatory diseases
N73.9Female pelvic inflammatory disease, unspecified