ICD-10-CM Code N20
Calculus of kidney and ureter
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code N20 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the four child codes of N20 that describes the diagnosis 'calculus of kidney and ureter' in more detail.
- N20 Calculus of kidney and ureter NON-BILLABLE
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- BILLABLE N20.0 Calculus of kidney
- BILLABLE N20.1 Calculus of ureter
- BILLABLE N20.2 Calculus of kidney with calculus of ureter
- BILLABLE N20.9 Urinary calculus, unspecified
The ICD code N20 is used to code Kidney disease
Kidney disease, also known as nephropathy or renal disease, is damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephritis is inflammatory kidney disease. Nephrosis is noninflammatory nephropathy. Kidney disease usually causes kidney failure (renal failure) to more or less degree, with the amount depending on the type of disease. In precise usage, disease denotes the structural and etiologic disease entity whereas failure denotes the dysfunction (lack of working well, that is, impaired renal function); but in common usage these meanings overlap; for example, the terms chronic kidney disease and chronic renal failure are usually considered synonymous. Acute kidney disease has often been called acute renal failure, although nephrologists now often tend to call it acute kidney injury.
| Specialty: | Urology |
| MeSH Code: | D007674 |
Coding Notes for N20 Info for medical coders on how to properly use this ICD-10 code
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Inclusion Terms:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion Terms are a list of concepts for which a specific code is used. The list of Inclusion Terms is useful for determining the correct code in some cases, but the list is not necessarily exhaustive. - Calculous pyelonephritis
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Code Type-1 Excludes:
Type-1 Excludes
Type-1 Excludes mean the conditions excluded are mutually exclusive and should never be coded together. Excludes 1 means "do not code here." - Nephrocalcinosis - instead, use code E83.5
- That with hydronephrosis - instead, use code N13.2
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'N20 - Calculus of kidney and ureter'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code N20. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.