N73.9
N73.9: Female pelvic inflammatory disease, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
N73.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for female pelvic inflammatory disease, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check N73.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Female pelvic infection or inflammation NOS
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
N73.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Disease, diseased›female pelvic inflammatory
- Disease, diseased›pelvis, pelvic›inflammatory(female)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under N73
- 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