Urethral stricture - a narrowing of the opening of the urethra. Urethritis - inflammation of the urethra, sometimes caused by infection. Urethral problems may cause pain or difficulty passing urine. You may also have bleeding or discharge from the urethra.
Type 1 Excludes. A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!". An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note.
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code N36.8:
A type 1 excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!". An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note.
Information for Patients. Urethral Disorders. The urethra is the tube that allows urine to pass out of the body. In men, it's a long tube that runs through the penis. It also carries semen in men. In women, it's short and is just above the vagina.
The General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) crosswalk indicates an approximate mapping between the ICD-10 code N36.8 its ICD-9 equivalent. The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 code and the ICD-9 code and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
ICD-10-CM is a statistical classification, per se, it is not a diagnosis. Some ICD-10-CM codes include multiple different clinical diagnoses and it can be of clinical importance to convey these diagnoses specifically in the record. Also some diagnoses require more than one ICD-10-CM code to fully convey the patient's condition. It is the provider's responsibility to provide clear and legible documentation of a diagnosis, which is then translated to a code for external reporting purposes.
Per the Official Coding Guidelines for ICD-10-CM, the term "with" means "associated with" or "due to,“ when it appears in a code title, the Alphabetic Index, or an instructional note in the Tabular List.
In general, clinical information and information on documentation best practices published in Coding Clinic were not unique to ICD-9-CM, and remain applicable for ICD-10-CM with some caveats. For example, Coding Clinicmay still be useful to understand clinical clues when applying the guideline regarding not coding separately signs or symptoms that are integral to a condition. Users may continue to use that information, as clues—not clinical criteria.
There are no new/revised ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, or changes to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for fiscal year (FY) 2016, because of the partial code set freeze in preparation of ICD-10 implementation. The following link is to the current ICD-10-CM guidelines:
However occasionally these tubes do not fall out and will require removal by the provider. Therefore
Vascular access device is a rather generic term to describe sterile catheter systems used to access a vascular structure either an artery or a vein. Selection of the body part value for insertion of a vascular access device is based on the end placement of the device rather than the point of entry.
A PICC line is generally inserted in a peripheral vein in the arm (cephalic vein, basilic vein, or brachial vein, and then advanced proximally toward the heart through larger veins, until the tip rests in the distal superior vena cava or