N99.1
N99.1: Postprocedural urethral stricture
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
N99.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for postprocedural urethral stricture. 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.
- Postcatheterization urethral stricture
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above N99.1
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on N99: Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified
Other codes that can never be billed with N99.1
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 N99.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under N99
- N99.0Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure
- N99.2Postprocedural adhesions of vagina
- N99.3Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
- N99.4Postprocedural pelvic peritoneal adhesions
- N99.5Complications of stoma of urinary tract
- N99.6Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a genitourinary system organ or structure complicating a procedure
- N99.7Accidental puncture and laceration of a genitourinary system organ or structure during a procedure
- N99.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system