Valid for Submission
N85.8 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of other specified noninflammatory disorders of uterus. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N85.8 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like acquired atrophy of uterus, arias-stella effect on endometrium, atrophic endometrium, calcification of uterus, complex cyst of uterine adnexa, cyst of uterine adnexa, etc
The code N85.8 is applicable to female patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-female patient.
| ICD-10: | N85.8 |
| Short Description: | Other specified noninflammatory disorders of uterus |
| Long Description: | Other specified noninflammatory disorders of uterus |
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code N85.8:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Atrophy of uterus, acquired
- Fibrosis of uterus NOS
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 N85.8 are found in the index:
- - Atrophy, atrophic (of)
- - endometrium (senile) - N85.8
- - myometrium (senile) - N85.8
- - uterus, uterine (senile) - N85.8
- - due to radiation (intended effect) - N85.8
- - Calcification
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Cicatrix (adherent) (contracted) (painful) (vicious) - See Also: Scar; - L90.5
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Congestion, congestive
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Contraction (s), contracture, contracted
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
- - endometrium, endometrial (uterus) - N85.8
- - myometrium - N85.8
- - uterus (body) (corpus) (recurrent) - N85.8
- - Deformity - Q89.9
- - uterus (congenital) - Q51.9
- - acquired - N85.8
- - uterus (congenital) - Q51.9
- - Degeneration, degenerative
- - uterus (cystic) - N85.8
- - Disease, diseased - See Also: Syndrome;
- - uterus (noninflammatory) - N85.9
- - specified NEC - N85.8
- - uterus (noninflammatory) - N85.9
- - Distension, distention
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Disturbance (s) - See Also: Disease;
- - Dysfunction
- - endometrium - N85.8
- - Dyskeratosis - L85.8
- - uterus NEC - N85.8
- - Fibrosis, fibrotic
- - uterus (non-neoplastic) - N85.8
- - Hydrometra - N85.8
- - Hypoplasia, hypoplastic
- - endometrium - N85.8
- - Incarceration, incarcerated
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Laceration
- - uterus - S37.63
- - nonpuerperal, nontraumatic - N85.8
- - old (postpartal) - N85.8
- - uterus - S37.63
- - Leukoplakia
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Membranaceous uterus - N85.8
- - Metaplasia
- - endometrium (squamous) (uterus) - N85.8
- - Obliteration
- - endometrium - N85.8
- - Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Occlusion, occluded
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Rupture, ruptured
- - uterus (traumatic) - S37.69
- - nonpuerperal, nontraumatic - N85.8
- - uterus (traumatic) - S37.69
- - Scar, scarring - See Also: Cicatrix; - L90.5
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Senile, senility - See Also: condition; - R41.81
- - endometrium (atrophic) - N85.8
- - Small (ness)
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Spasm (s), spastic, spasticity - See Also: condition; - R25.2
- - uterus - N85.8
- - Superinvolution (uterus) - N85.8
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:
- Acquired atrophy of uterus
- Arias-Stella effect on endometrium
- Atrophic endometrium
- Calcification of uterus
- Complex cyst of uterine adnexa
- Cyst of uterine adnexa
- Fibrosis of uterus
- Finding of consistency of uterus
- Finding of consistency of uterus
- Finding of consistency of uterus
- Finding of consistency of uterus
- Finding of form of uterus
- Finding of form of uterus
- Finding of form of uterus
- Finding of form of uterus
- Finding of pain of uterine contraction
- Finding of proportion of uterus
- Finding of sensation of gravid uterus
- Finding of sensation of gravid uterus
- Flaccid uterus
- Fluid thrill in uterus
- Focal disruption of uterus
- Genital tear resulting from childbirth
- Hydrometra
- Inadequate development of endometrium
- Incarceration of uterus
- Mass of uterus
- Morphological change in endometrium caused by intrauterine contraceptive device
- Mucometra
- Noninflammatory disorder of uterus
- Noninflammatory disorder of uterus
- Old uterine laceration due to obstetric cause
- Painful scar
- Painful uterine contractions
- Polycystic mass of uterine adnexa
- Previous uterine surgical scar
- Reactive cellular changes caused by intrauterine contraceptive device
- Rupture of uterus
- Sacculation of uterus
- Scarring of uterus
- Small uterus
- Tender scar
- Tender scar of gravid uterus
- Tender scar of lower uterine segment
- Tender scar of upper uterine segment
- Ulcer of uterus
- Uterine cornual occlusion
- Uterine distension syndrome
- Uterine or cervical spasm
- Uterine spasm
- Uterus asymmetrical
- Uterus boggy
- Uterus firm
- Uterus globular in shape
- Uterus hard
- Uterus heart-shaped
- Uterus high
- Uterus irregular in shape
- Uterus ovoid in shape
- Very small uterus
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code N85.8 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 10/01/2020 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 N85.8 to ICD-9
- 621.8 - Disorders of uterus NEC (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