Rheumatoid arthritis of hand with involvement of other organs and systems

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

M05.641 Rheumatoid arthritis of right hand with involvement of other organs and systems
M05.642 Rheumatoid arthritis of left hand with involvement of other organs and systems
M05.649 Rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified hand with involvement of other organs and systems

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Rheumatoid arthritis of hand with involvement of other organs and systems

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from M05 Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor

Excludes1 - never coded here

rheumatic fever (I00)
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (M08.-)
rheumatoid arthritis of spine (M45.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Rheumatism > gout
Rheumatoid > arthritis
Rheumatoid > polyarthritis
Disease, diseased > rheumatoid
Arthritis, arthritic > rheumatic
Arthritis, arthritic > rheumatoid > with > visceral involvement NEC
Rheumatoid > arthritis > with involvement of organs NEC > hand joint

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
M05.60	Rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site with involvement of other organs and systems	Valid
M05.61	Rheumatoid arthritis of shoulder with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.62	Rheumatoid arthritis of elbow with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.63	Rheumatoid arthritis of wrist with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.65	Rheumatoid arthritis of hip with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.66	Rheumatoid arthritis of knee with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.67	Rheumatoid arthritis of ankle and foot with involvement of other organs and systems	Not billable
M05.69	Rheumatoid arthritis of multiple sites with involvement of other organs and systems	Valid