N99.52 — Complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
N99.52 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above N99.52
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of N99.52, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Written on N99.5 — Complications of stoma of urinary tract
- mechanical complication of urinary catheter (T83.0-)
Written on N99 — Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
N99.52 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 history
N99.52 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead N99.52
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- N99.520Hemorrhage of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
- N99.521Infection of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
- N99.522Malfunction of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
- N99.523Herniation of incontinent stoma of urinary tract
- N99.524Stenosis of incontinent stoma of urinary tract
- N99.528Other complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract
Related codes at this level
Codes that share N99.5. If N99.52 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about N99.52
- Is N99.52 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. N99.52 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does N99.52 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).