R39.19Other difficulties with micturition

R39.19 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other difficulties with micturition. It belongs to category R39 (other and unspecified symptoms and signs involving the genitourinary system), block R30-R39 (symptoms and signs involving the genitourinary system) and chapter 18 (symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within R39.1, choose R39.19 (Other difficulties with micturition) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: hesitancy of micturition (R39.11), poor urinary stream (R39.12), splitting of urinary stream (R39.13), Feeling of incomplete bladder emptying (R39.14), urgency of urination (R39.15) and Straining to void (R39.16).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: R39.191 (re-void), R39.192 (micturition) and R39.198 (micturition).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015, and changed in FY2017 (expanded into subcodes).