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N71.9

Inflammatory disease of uterus, unspecified

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 2 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 13 never code together
N71code
Excludes1
  • hyperplastic endometritis (N85.0-)N85.0-
  • infection of uterus following delivery (O85, O86.-)O85O86.-
N70-N77block
Excludes1
  • inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs complicating:
  • abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.0)O00-O07O08.0
  • pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O85, O86.-)O23.-O75.3O85O86.-
N00-N99chapter
Excludes2
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 6
N71code
Includes
  • endo (myo) metritis
  • metritis
  • myometritis
  • pyometra
  • uterine abscess
Use additional code
  • code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agentB95-B97
Index entries leading here 2
  • Endometritis (decidual) (nonspecific) (purulent) (senile) (atrophic) (suppurative) N71.9
  • Postmenopausal
Alongside this code 2 same parent — N71
Medications 1

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

Additional references
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Risk adjustment

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Parent
N71
Block
N70-N77
Siblings
2

Present FY2024–FY2027.