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Reader Question:

Locate Your Leukorrhea Code In the ICD-10 Manual

Published on Thu Dec 06, 2012

Question: How should I report leukorrhea in ICD-10?

Florida Subscriber

Answer: Leukorrhea becomes a little less specific in ICD-10, but you still should cheer for its one-to-one correlation.

Currently, you should report this condition with 623.5 (Leukorrhea not specified as infective).After October 1, 2014, you should report N89.8 (Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vagina). Code 623.5 maps directly to N89.8. However, you should examine how the descriptors differ.

Documentation: You should turn to code N89.8 when the provider documents leukorrhea. If your provider documents leukorrhea NOS, you'll still turn to N89.8 because this term appears as an explanatory term under N89.8.

Here's how you will arrive at these codes from the Alphabetic Index (specific to vaginal discharge):

Discharge (from)

- vaginal N89.8

Leukorrhea N89.8

Watch out: Underneath the N89- category, you will find an Excludes1 note that forbids you from reporting codes in this category with abnormal results from cervical cytologic examination without histologic confirmation (R87.61-), carcinoma in situ of cervix uteri (D06-), HGSIL of vagina (R87.623), inflammation of vagina (N76-), senile (atrophic) vaginitis (N95.2), severe dysplasia of vagina (D07.2), trichomonal leukorrhea (A95.00), and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia [VAIN], grade III (D07.2).

Under N89.8 itself, you'll see another Excludes1 note that forbids you from reporting this code with current obstetric trauma (O70-, O71.4, O71.7, O71.8) or an old laceration involving muscles of pelvic floor (N81.8).

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