2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code N99.12

Postprocedural urethral stricture, female

    2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Billable/Specific Code Female Dx
  • N99.12 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
  • The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM N99.12 became effective on October 1, 2022.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of N99.12 - other international versions of ICD-10 N99.12 may differ.
ICD-10-CM Coding Rules
  • N99.12 is applicable to female patients.
The following code(s) above N99.12 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
  • Applicable To annotations, or
  • Code Also annotations, or
  • Code First annotations, or
  • Excludes1 annotations, or
  • Excludes2 annotations, or
  • Includes annotations, or
  • Note annotations, or
  • Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to N99.12:
  • N00-N99
    2023 ICD-10-CM Range N00-N99

    Diseases of the genitourinary system

    Type 2 Excludes
    • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
    • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
    • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
    • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
    • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
    • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
    • neoplasms (C00-D49)
    • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
    Diseases of the genitourinary system
  • N99
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code N99

    Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified

      2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Type 2 Excludes
    • irradiation cystitis (N30.4-)
    • postoophorectomy osteoporosis with current pathological fracture (M80.8-)
    • postoophorectomy osteoporosis without current pathological fracture (M81.8)
    Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified
  • N99.1
    ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code N99.1

    Postprocedural urethral stricture

      2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
    Applicable To
    • Postcatheterization urethral stricture
    Postprocedural urethral stricture
Approximate Synonyms
  • Female postprocedural urethral stricture
ICD-10-CM N99.12 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v40.0):
  • 697 Urethral stricture

Convert N99.12 to ICD-9-CM

Code History
  • 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
  • 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
  • 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
  • 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
  • 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
  • 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
  • 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
  • 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to N99.12:

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To N99.12
N99.0 Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure
N99.1 Postprocedural urethral stricture
N99.11 Postprocedural urethral stricture, male
N99.110 …… meatal
N99.111 Postprocedural bulbous urethral stricture, male
N99.112 Postprocedural membranous urethral stricture, male
N99.113 Postprocedural anterior bulbous urethral stricture, male
N99.114 …… unspecified
N99.115 Postprocedural fossa navicularis urethral stricture
N99.116 …… overlapping sites
N99.12 …… female
N99.2 Postprocedural adhesions of vagina
N99.3 Prolapse of vaginal vault after hysterectomy
N99.4 Postprocedural pelvic peritoneal adhesions
N99.5 Complications of stoma of urinary tract
N99.51 Complication of cystostomy
N99.510 Cystostomy hemorrhage
N99.511 Cystostomy infection
N99.512 Cystostomy malfunction
N99.518 Other cystostomy complication
N99.52 Complication of incontinent external stoma of urinary tract

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.