ICD List is a reference website of ICD-10 codes and related medical coding and billing information. A urostomy is a surgically created opening in the abdominal wall that redirects urine and allows it to flow to the outside of the body.ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Medical Coding Reference 2022 - 2023 Additionally, code 996.64, Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal prosthetic device, implant and graft, due to indwelling urinary catheter, is not appropriate since a urostomy is not an indwelling catheter. The POA indicator of "Y" will clarify that the condition was present on admission, and is not hospital acquired.
Assign also code 599.0, Urinary tract infection, site not specified. This code includes conditions associated with an external stoma of the urinary tract. The provider documented "UTI due to poor self-catheterization technique/hygiene, status post urostomy." How should a urostomy associated UTI due to poor self-catheterization technique/hygiene be coded? Is code 996.64, Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal prosthetic device, implant and graft, due to indwelling urinary catheter, appropriate?Īssign code 997.5, Urinary complications, for the urostomy associated UTI, resulting from poor self-catheterization technique/hygiene. The provider was queried whether the patient's urinary tract infection (UTI) was related to the urostomy. The patient is status post colostomy and urostomy and the provider's final diagnostic statement indicated sepsis secondary to urinary source (i.e., urinary tract infection). Since being discharged, she has developed further nausea, vomiting, dysuria, fever, foul-smelling urine, and abdominal pain and was readmitted for management of her condition. AHA Coding Clinic(r) for ICD-9-CM, 1Q 2012, Volume 29, Number 1, Pages 11&12Ī 50-year-old patient was recently discharged from the hospital with a diagnosis of sepsis due to a urinary source.
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