ICD-10-CM Code N70.13

Valid for Submission

N70.13 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of chronic salpingitis and oophoritis. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N70.13 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like chronic oophoritis, chronic perioophoritis, chronic perisalpingitis, chronic salpingitis, chronic salpingo-oophoritis, perioophoritis, etc

The code N70.13 is applicable to female patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-female 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 N70.13 are found in the index:

• - Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
  • - tubo-ovarian - N83.8
    • - inflammatory - N70.13

• - Oophoritis (cystic) (infectional) (interstitial) - N70.92
  • - chronic - N70.12
    • - with salpingitis - N70.13

• - Salpingitis (catarrhal) (fallopian tube) (nodular) (pseudofollicular) (purulent) (septic) - N70.91
  • - chronic - N70.11
    • - with oophoritis - N70.13
  • - follicularis - N70.11
    • - with oophoritis - N70.13
  • - interstitial, chronic - N70.11
    • - with oophoritis - N70.13
  • - isthmica nodosa - N70.11
    • - with oophoritis - N70.13

• - Salpingo-oophoritis (catarrhal) (purulent) (ruptured) (septic) (suppurative) - N70.93
  • - chronic - N70.13

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 females only - Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies between a patient’s sex and any diagnosis on the patient’s record, this code applies to FEMALES only .

Synonyms

The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:

• Chronic oophoritis
• Chronic perioophoritis
• Chronic perisalpingitis
• Chronic salpingitis
• Chronic salpingo-oophoritis
• Perioophoritis
• Perisalpingitis

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code N70.13 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.

• 742 - UTERINE AND ADNEXA PROCEDURES FOR NON-MALIGNANCY WITH CC/MCC
• 743 - UTERINE AND ADNEXA PROCEDURES FOR NON-MALIGNANCY WITHOUT CC/MCC

Convert N70.13 to ICD-9

• 614.1 - Chr salpingo-oophoritis (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00–N99)
  • Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs (N70-N77)
    • Salpingitis and oophoritis (N70)

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

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