Valid for Submission
N47.1 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of phimosis. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N47.1 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like acquired penile adhesion, acquired phimosis, acquired synechiae of foreskin of penis, congenital penile adhesion, congenital phimosis, foreskin does not retract, etc
The code N47.1 is applicable to male patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-male patient.
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code N47.1 are found in the index:
- - Constriction - See Also: Stricture;
- - prepuce (acquired) (congenital) - N47.1
- - Phimosis (congenital) (due to infection) - N47.1
- - Spanish collar - N47.1
- - Tight, tightness
- - foreskin (congenital) - N47.1
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Diagnoses for males only - Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies between a patient’s sex and any diagnosis on the patient’s record, this code applies to MALES only .
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Acquired penile adhesion
- Acquired phimosis
- Acquired synechiae of foreskin of penis
- Congenital penile adhesion
- Congenital phimosis
- Foreskin does not retract
- Functional disorder of penis
- Iatrogenic phimosis
- Phimosis
- Preputial adhesions
- Preputial adhesions
- Redundant prepuce and phimosis
- Retraction of foreskin - finding
- Retraction of foreskin - finding
- Tight foreskin
- Tight frenulum of foreskin
- Tightly retracted foreskin
Clinical Information
- PHIMOSIS-. a condition in which the foreskin cannot be retracted to reveal the glans penis. it is due to tightness or narrowing of the foreskin opening.
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code N47.1 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.
- 727 - INFLAMMATION OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITH MCC
- 728 - INFLAMMATION OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITHOUT MCC
Convert N47.1 to ICD-9
- 605 - Redun prepuce & phimosis (Approximate Flag)
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020