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N50.82 ICD-10-CM Code: Scrotal pain

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
1 Excludes2

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

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

  • MS-DRG 729 — OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH CC/MCC (MDC 12)
  • MS-DRG 730 — OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 12)

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.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for N50.82 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Notes without a marker are published on N50.82 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

Source: inherited from N50

Coder workflow for N50.82

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of N50.82(1 note)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in N50.82. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareN44.0

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.b

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Code Overview

Scrotal pain is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (N50.82).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Indexed Clinical Terms (1)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Verify Before Coding

  • No Medicare Code Editor or MS-DRG Definitions Manual restrictions apply to this code.

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

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name N50.82 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 11 Excludes2 notes: R10 — Abdominal and pelvic pain (via N50.-), R10-R19 — Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (R10-R19) (via N50.-), R11 — Nausea and vomiting (via N50.-), R12 — Heartburn (via N50.-), R13 — Aphagia and dysphagia (via N50.-), R14 — Flatulence and related conditions (via N50.-), R15 — Fecal incontinence (via N50.-), R16 — Hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, not elsewhere classified (via N50.-), R17 — Unspecified jaundice (via N50.-), R18 — Ascites (via N50.-), R19 — Other symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen (via N50.-).

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 MS-DRG: not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity for that release.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 729 (MDC 12), DRG 730 (MDC 12).

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

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):GEN016 — Other specified male genital disorders (default).

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

Related Codes

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical category (Other specified male genital disorders).

N48.83 — Acquired buried penis, N48.89 — Other specified disorders of penis, N48.9 — Disorder of penis, unspecified, N50.0 — Atrophy of testis, N50.1 — Vascular disorders of male genital organs, N50.3 — Cyst of epididymis, N50.8 — Other specified disorders of male genital organs, N50.811 — Right testicular pain, N50.812 — Left testicular pain, N50.819 — Testicular pain, unspecified, N50.89 — Other specified disorders of the male genital organs, N50.9 — Disorder of male genital organs, unspecified, N51 — Disorders of male genital organs in diseases classified elsewhere, N53.11 — Retarded ejaculation, N53.12 — Painful ejaculation, N53.13 — Anejaculatory orgasm, N53.14 — Retrograde ejaculation, N53.19 — Other ejaculatory dysfunction, N53.8 — Other male sexual dysfunction, N53.9 — Unspecified male sexual dysfunction, +45 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main term “Pain”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

M79.60 — Pain in limb, unspecified (limb, lower), M79.609 — Pain in unspecified limb (limb), M79.62 — Pain in upper arm (axillary), M79.63 — Pain in forearm (limb, upper, forearm), M79.64 — Pain in hand and fingers (limb, upper, hand), M79.65 — Pain in thigh (limb, lower, thigh), M79.66 — Pain in lower leg (limb, lower, lower leg), M79.67 — Pain in foot and toes (limb, lower, toe), N23 — Unspecified renal colic (ureter), N48.89 — Other specified disorders of penis (penis), N64.4 — Mastodynia (breast), N94.0 — Mittelschmerz (ovulation), N94.3 — Premenstrual tension syndrome (premenstrual), N94.6 — Dysmenorrhea, unspecified (menstrual), N94.89 — Other specified conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycle (ovary), R07.0 — Pain in throat (throat), R07.1 — Chest pain on breathing (diaphragm), R07.2 — Precordial pain (substernal), R07.81 — Pleurodynia (chest, pleurodynia), R07.82 — Intercostal pain (intercostal), +78 more

Lab tests where this diagnosis supports Medicare coverage (NCD)

Medicare's National Coverage Determination (NCD) program lists this diagnosis as medical justification for these lab tests.

Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) Test, Blood Glucose Test

Contextual Map

Every relationship of N50.82 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Run N50.82 with these 8 related codes in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes2 notes (11)

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 12 — Diseases and Disorders of the Male Reproductive System[MDC crossing]: “Diseases and Disorders of the Male Reproductive System — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 1,964 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2026

Index entries

  • Pain (s), scrotum[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (11)

Change history

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v43 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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Cite this page

Reference this page in a research guide, syllabus or article. The release is included because code content changes each year.

MedCoder.ai. "N50.82 — Scrotal pain." ICD-10-CM FY2026. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/n50.82-scrotal-pain

Change history

  • FY2017 — October 1, 2016
    Added to the code set
    Scrotal pain
    FY2017 changes

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to N50.82 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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