N99.1
Postprocedural urethral stricture
Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.
N99.1 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for postprocedural urethral stricture. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are N99.11 Postprocedural urethral stricture, male and N99.12 Postprocedural urethral stricture, female. Its coding notes include 11 Excludes2 entries.
Guidelines tip
From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.
Intraoperative and postprocedural complications are coded from the body system chapters unless the complication is specifically indexed to a T code.
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Inherited from N99 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 14 Diseases of the genitourinary system
- 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)
Inclusion terms
Conditions classified to this code.
This code
- Postcatheterization urethral stricture