Tests your doctor might recommend include:
Treatment
What is epididymitis?
For acute epididymitis most likely caused by chlamydia, gonorrhea, or enteric organisms (men who practice insertive anal sex): Ceftriaxone 500 mg* IM in a single dose . PLUS . Levofloxacin 500 mg orally once daily for 10 days * For persons weighing ≥150 kg, 1 g of ceftriaxone should be administered.
ICD-10-CM Code for Epididymitis N45. 1.
N45. 1 - Epididymitis | ICD-10-CM.
ICD-10 code: N45. 9 Orchitis, epididymitis and epididymo-orchitis without abscess.
ICD-10-CM Code for Epididymo-orchitis N45. 3.
Pain in the scrotum or testicle (“testis”) might be from epididymitis, orchitis or both. Epididymitis is swelling or pain in the back of the testicle in the coiled tube (epididymis) that stores and carries sperm. Orchitis is swelling or pain in one or both testicles, usually from an infection or virus.
Acute epididymitis is a clinical syndrome causing pain, swelling, and inflammation of the epididymis and lasting <6 weeks (1191). Sometimes a testicle is also involved, a condition referred to as epididymo-orchitis.
N50. 89 - Other specified disorders of the male genital organs | ICD-10-CM.
Listen to pronunciation. (eh-pih-DIH-dih-mis) A narrow, tightly-coiled tube that is attached to each of the testicles (the male sex glands that produce sperm). Sperm cells (male reproductive cells) move from the testicles into the epididymis, where they finish maturing and are stored.
Inflammatory disorders of scrotum The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM N49. 2 became effective on October 1, 2021.
ICD-10-CM Code for Cyst of epididymis N50. 3.
ICD-10-CM Code for Acute prostatitis N41. 0.
Gonorrhea and chlamydia are the most common causes of epididymitis in young, sexually active men. Other infections. Bacteria from a urinary tract or prostate infection might spread from the infected site to the epididymis. Also, viral infections, such as the mumps virus, can result in epididymitis.
Use a child code to capture more detail. ICD Code N45 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of N45 that describes the diagnosis 'orchitis and epididymitis' in more detail.
The ICD code N45 is used to code Orchitis. Orchitis /ˌɔːrˈkaɪtɪs/ or orchiditis /ˌɔːrkɪˈdaɪtɪs/ (from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις meaning "testicle"; same root as orchid) is inflammation of the testes.