Renal and perinephric abscess
Billable / specific
N15.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from N15)
- pyelonephritis
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from N15)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from N15)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from N15)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from N15)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from N15)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from N15)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from N15)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from N15)
Also known as
- Abscess, kidney
- Abscess, paranephric
Parent code
- N15Other renal tubulo-interstitial diseasesHeader