ICD-10-CM Code N93.9

Valid for Submission

N93.9 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of abnormal uterine and vaginal bleeding, unspecified. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N93.9 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abnormal uterine bleeding, abnormal uterine bleeding unrelated to menstrual cycle, abnormal vaginal bleeding, altered blood in vagina, blood in vagina, finding of contents of vagina, etc

The code N93.9 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 N93.9 are found in the index:

• - Bleeding - See Also: Hemorrhage;
  • - uterus, uterine NEC - N93.9
    • - unrelated to menstrual cycle - N93.9
  • - vagina, vaginal (abnormal) - N93.9

• - Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) - R58
  • - uterus, uterine (abnormal) - N93.9
  • - vagina (abnormal) - N93.9

• - Menstruation
  • - disorder - N93.9

• - Upset
  • - menstruation - N93.9

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:

• Abnormal uterine bleeding
• Abnormal uterine bleeding unrelated to menstrual cycle
• Abnormal vaginal bleeding
• Altered blood in vagina
• Blood in vagina
• Finding of contents of vagina
• Fresh bleeding from vagina
• Heavy episode of vaginal bleeding
• Heavy show
• Moderate vaginal bleeding
• Non-menstrual vaginal bleeding
• O/E - speculum bleeding through os
• O/E - vagina
• On examination - vaginal speculum examination
• Passing clots vaginally
• Vaginal bleeding problem
• Vaginal introitus bleeding
• Vaginal show
• Vaginal vault bleeding

Diagnostic Related Groups

The ICD-10 code N93.9 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 N93.9 to ICD-9

• 626.9 - Menstrual disorder NOS (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00–N99)
  • Noninflammatory disorders of female genital tract (N80-N98)
    • Other abnormal uterine and vaginal bleeding (N93)

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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