N99.5
N99.5: Complications of stoma of urinary tract
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
N99.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for complications of stoma of urinary tract. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- mechanical complication of urinary catheter (T83.0-)
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above N99.5
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 N99.5
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 N99.5
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under N99
- N99.0Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure
- N99.1Postprocedural urethral stricture
- N99.2Postprocedural adhesions of vagina
- N99.3Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
- N99.4Postprocedural pelvic peritoneal adhesions
- 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