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
Other codes that can never be billed with N99.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at N99.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading N99.1 alone.
Risk adjustment
N99.1 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.
Code to one of these instead N99.1
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share N99. If N99.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about N99.1
- Is N99.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. N99.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does N99.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99), in the block Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified (N99).