ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M08.0 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis › M08.04

M08.04

Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand

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:

  • M08.041 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, right hand
  • M08.042 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, left hand
  • M08.049 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified hand

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M08.00 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site Valid
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
M08.05 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