Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, left knee

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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, left knee

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 > knee

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
M08.061	Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, right knee	Valid
M08.069	Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified knee	Valid