ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M08.0 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis › M08.00
Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site
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 M08 Juvenile arthritis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- arthropathy in Whipple's disease (M14.8)
- Felty's syndrome (M05.0)
- juvenile dermatomyositis (M33.0-)
- psoriatic juvenile arthropathy (L40.54)
Code also
- any associated underlying condition, such as:
- regional enteritis [Crohn's disease] (K50.-)
- ulcerative colitis (K51.-)
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.
- Arthropyosis
- Pyoarthrosis
- Septic > joint
- Abscess > joint
- Rheumatism > gout
- Arthropathy > juvenile
- Pyemia, pyemic > joint
- Rheumatoid > arthritis
- Pyarthritis, pyarthrosis
- Rheumatoid > polyarthritis
- Arthritis, arthritic > septic
- Disease, diseased > rheumatoid
- Arthritis, arthritic > purulent
- Arthritis, arthritic > rheumatic
- Suppuration, suppurative > joint
- Arthritis, arthritic > suppurative
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > infection
- Disease, diseased > joint > suppurative
- Polyarthritis, polyarthropathy > infective
- Arthritis, arthritic > in > coliform bacilli
- Arthritis, arthritic > juvenile > rheumatoid
- Arthritis, arthritic > infectious or infective
- Arthritis, arthritic > rheumatoid > juvenile
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M08.01 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder | Not billable |
| M08.02 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of elbow | Not billable |
| M08.03 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, wrist | Not billable |
| M08.04 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand | Not billable |
| M08.05 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hip | Not billable |
| M08.06 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, knee | Not billable |
| M08.07 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, ankle and foot | Not billable |
| M08.08 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, vertebrae | Valid |
| M08.09 | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sites | Valid |
| M08.0A | Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, other specified site | Valid |