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Her examination found an indwelling Foley catheter, but patient is unable to remember the reason for placing this catheter. UTI ICD 10 Codes Example 1Ħ5-year-old Mary visits clinic with fever, dysuria, tachycardia and altered mental status from past one week. Provider should be queried on this as there is no by default code to be assigned for urosepsis.īelow examples will help us understanding how to code UTI.

Urosepsis – This does not lead to any code in the alphabetic index.

For example if both cystitis and UTI are mentioned it is not necessary to code UTI, instead code only cystitis.

Avoid coding unspecified UTI (N39.0) when specific site infection is mentioned.

Infection to kidney, called Pyelonephritis should be coded to the specific code as given in the screenshot below.

For example, Infection to bladder to be coded as cystitis, infection to urethra to urethritis.

Site specified infection should be coded to the particular site.

If the infectious organism is mentioned, place the UTI code primary and organism secondary.

It is not necessary to mention the infectious agent when using ICD N39.0.

UTI ICD 10 codes and guidelines for UTI can be found in chapter 14 of ICD-10-CM manual which is “diseases of the genitourinary system”, code range N00-N99 ICD-10 codes Urinalysis and urine culture are the lab tests used to confirm UTI.

Physician does a thorough physical examination and takes clinical history of the patient. Patients may complain of one or multiple symptoms which include fever, dysuria, hematuria, incontinence, decreased urine output, pain in abdomen or back, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. It is called as Cystitis, Urethritis and Pyelonephritis based on the site. Infection can happen in any part of the urinary tract – kidney, ureter, bladder or urethra. Urinary retention gets increased in the bladder and this creates an environment for bacterial growth. Muscles in the bladder, urethra and ureter become weaken. As age goes up there will be structural changes happening in kidney. Urinary Tract infection (UTI) is a very common infectious disease occurs commonly in aged women. Let us study about Urinary Tract infections symptoms, UTI ICD 10 Codes and guidelines with examples.