ICD-10-CM Code R37

Valid for Submission

R37 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of sexual dysfunction, unspecified. The code is valid for the fiscal year 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code R37 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like abnormal sexual function, coital disorder, coital disorder, coital failure, coital impairment, decreased sexual function, etc

According to ICD-10-CM guidelines this code should not to be used as a principal diagnosis code when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.

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 R37 are found in the index:

• - Dysfunction
  • - sexual (due to) - R37

Synonyms

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

• Abnormal sexual function
• Coital disorder
• Coital disorder
• Coital failure
• Coital impairment
• Decreased sexual function
• Enjoyment of sex - finding
• Erection without orgasm
• Excessive orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Failure of orgasm
• Female coital disorder
• Female coital disorder
• Finding related to ability to have sexual intercourse
• Finding related to ability to have sexual intercourse
• Finding related to ability to have sexual intercourse
• Finding related to ability to have sexual intercourse
• Has never reached orgasm
• Inappropriate orgasm
• Inhibited orgasm
• Male coital disorder
• Male coital disorder
• No longer reaches orgasm
• Orgasm too easily aroused
• Penetration impossible
• Sexual disorder
• Sexual exhaustion
• Sexual function painful
• Sexual hypesthesia
• Sexual inadequacy
• Sexual intercourse difficult
• Sexual intercourse unsuccessful
• Unable to have sexual intercourse
• Weak orgasm

Clinical Information

• SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION PHYSIOLOGICAL-. physiological disturbances in normal sexual performance in either the male or the female.
• SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS PSYCHOLOGICAL-. disturbances in sexual desire and the psychophysiologic changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty. apa dsm iv 1994

Convert R37 to ICD-9

• 302.70 - Psychosexual dysfunc NOS (Approximate Flag)

Code Classification

• Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
  • Symptoms and signs involving the genitourinary system (R30-R39)
    • Sexual dysfunction, unspecified (R37)

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
• FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021

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