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S37.90 ICD-10-CM Code: Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ

Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.

Code Overview

Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (S37.90). A more specific billable subcode must be selected for claims submission.

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

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for S37.90 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • injuries to the abdominal wall inherited from S30-S39
  • injuries to the anus inherited from S30-S39
  • injuries to the buttock inherited from S30-S39
  • injuries to the external genitalia inherited from S30-S39
  • injuries to the flank inherited from S30-S39
  • injuries to the groin inherited from S30-S39

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.

Code Also

Additional codes that may be required to fully describe the encounter.

  • any associated open wound (S31.-) inherited from S37

Indexed Clinical Terms (6)

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.

  • Injury, genital organ (s), internal
  • Injury, internal, pelvis, pelvic (organ)
  • Injury, intra-abdominal, pelvic NOS
  • Injury, intra-abdominal, specified, pelvic
  • Injury, pelvis, pelvic (floor), organ
  • Injury, urinary organ

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on S37.90 name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

  • FY2016 — 2015-10-01
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

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Relationships & Classification

Other codes that name S37.90 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 1 Use Additional Code instruction: S38.1 (via S37.-).

These codes instruct coders to additionally report this code when it applies.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of S37.90 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.

Hierarchy

  • S00-T88 — Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (S00-T88) (S00-T88) [Hierarchy]

Referenced by Use Additional Code instructions

  • S38.1 — Crushing injury of abdomen, lower back, and pelvis [Use Additional Code](via S37.-): “injury to urinary and pelvic organs (S37.-)” · check together

Index entries

  • Injury, genital organ (s), internal[Index term]
  • Injury, internal, pelvis, pelvic (organ)[Index term]
  • Injury, intra-abdominal, pelvic NOS[Index term]
  • Injury, intra-abdominal, specified, pelvic[Index term]
  • Injury, pelvis, pelvic (floor), organ[Index term]
  • Injury, urinary organ[Index term]

Nearest codes (40)

  • S37 — Injury of urinary and pelvic organs [Sibling]
  • S37.828A — Other injury of prostate, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • S37.828D — Other injury of prostate, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • S37.828S — Other injury of prostate, sequela [Sibling]
  • S37.829 — Unspecified injury of prostate [Sibling]
  • S37.829A — Unspecified injury of prostate, initial encounter [Sibling]
  • S37.829D — Unspecified injury of prostate, subsequent encounter [Sibling]
  • S37.829S — Unspecified injury of prostate, sequela [Sibling]
  • and 32 more

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance

Can S37.90 be billed directly?

No. S37.90 (Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.

Does S37.90 require a 7th character?

Yes. The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S37.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to S37.90 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • S37.899 — Unspecified injury of other urinary and pelvic organ
  • S37.899A — Unspecified injury of other urinary and pelvic organ, initial encounter
  • S37.899D — Unspecified injury of other urinary and pelvic organ, subsequent encounter
  • S37.899S — Unspecified injury of other urinary and pelvic organ, sequela
  • S37.9 — Injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ
  • S37.90XA — Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ, initial encounter
  • S37.90XD — Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ, subsequent encounter
  • S37.90XS — Unspecified injury of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ, sequela
  • S37.92 — Contusion of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ
  • S37.92XA — Contusion of unspecified urinary and pelvic organ, initial encounter

View all codes in the S37 family