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ICD-10/N35.814

N35.814 ICD-10-CM Code: Other anterior urethral stricture, male

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0, Appendix B.

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Other anterior urethral stricture, male is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (N35.814).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for N35.814 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Change history

  • FY2020 — 2019-10-01
    Description revised
    Other anterior urethral stricture, male, anterior → Other anterior urethral stricture, male
    FY2020 changes
  • FY2020 — 2019-10-01
    Short description revised
    Other anterior urethral stricture, male, anterior → Other anterior urethral stricture, male
    FY2020 changes
  • FY2019 — 2018-10-01
    Added to the code set
    Other anterior urethral stricture, male, anterior
    FY2019 changes

Verify Before Coding

  • Billable — reportable as written.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim.

Relationships & Classification

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):GEN007 — Other specified and unspecified diseases of bladder and urethra (default).

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Potential MS-DRG Relationships (FY2026)

Not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity.

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 697 (MDC 11).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to N35.814 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • N35.8 — Other urethral stricture
  • N35.81 — Other urethral stricture, male
  • N35.811 — Other urethral stricture, male, meatal
  • N35.812 — Other bulbous urethral stricture, male
  • N35.813 — Other membranous urethral stricture, male
  • N35.816 — Other urethral stricture, male, overlapping sites
  • N35.819 — Other urethral stricture, male, unspecified site
  • N35.82 — Other urethral stricture, female
  • N35.9 — Urethral stricture, unspecified
  • N35.91 — Urethral stricture, unspecified, male

View all codes in the N35 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (1)

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.

  • Stricture, urethra (organic) (spasmodic), specified cause NEC, male, anterior urethra