N81.82 — Incompetence or weakening of pubocervical tissue
N81.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for incompetence or weakening of pubocervical tissue. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
N81.82 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
N81.82 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 N81.82 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 N81.82.
- Incompetency, incompetent, incompetence›pubocervical tissue
- Weak, weakening, weakness›pubocervical tissue
Related codes at this level
Codes that share N81.8. If N81.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about N81.82
- Is N81.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. N81.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does N81.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99), in the block Noninflammatory disorders of female genital tract (N80-N98).