ICD-10-CM Code N71.1

Valid for Submission

N71.1 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of chronic inflammatory disease of uterus. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N71.1 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like acute endometritis, acute on chronic endometritis, acute uterine inflammatory disease, chronic endometritis, chronic endometritis, chronic endomyometritis, etc

The code N71.1 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 N71.1 are found in the index:

• - Endometritis (decidual) (nonspecific) (purulent) (senile) (atrophic) (suppurative) - N71.9
  • - chronic - N71.1

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 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:

• Acute endometritis
• Acute on chronic endometritis
• Acute uterine inflammatory disease
• Chronic endometritis
• Chronic endometritis
• Chronic endomyometritis
• Chronic myometritis
• Chronic perimetritis
• Chronic peritonitis
• Chronic pyometra
• Chronic uterine inflammatory disease
• Endomyometritis
• Myometritis
• Myometritis
• Perimetritis
• Pyometra
• Pyometra
• Pyometra co-occurrent and due to chronic inflammatory disease of uterus

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code N71.1 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.

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

Convert N71.1 to ICD-9

• 615.1 - Chr uterine inflammation

Code Classification

• Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00–N99)
  • Inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs (N70-N77)
    • Inflammatory disease of uterus, except cervix (N71)

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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