ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M10.2 Drug-induced gout › M10.20

M10.20

Drug-induced gout, unspecified site

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Drug-induced gout, 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 M10 Gout

Excludes2 - not included here

  • chronic gout (M1A.-)

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • Autonomic neuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere (G99.0)
  • Calculus of urinary tract in diseases classified elsewhere (N22)
  • Cardiomyopathy in diseases classified elsewhere (I43)
  • Disorders of external ear in diseases classified elsewhere (H61.1-, H62.8-)
  • Disorders of iris and ciliary body in diseases classified elsewhere (H22)
  • Glomerular disorders in diseases classified elsewhere (N08)

Also known as

  • Acute gout
  • Gout attack
  • Gout flare
  • Podagra

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
M10.21 Drug-induced gout, shoulder Not billable
M10.22 Drug-induced gout, elbow Not billable
M10.23 Drug-induced gout, wrist Not billable
M10.24 Drug-induced gout, hand Not billable
M10.25 Drug-induced gout, hip Not billable
M10.26 Drug-induced gout, knee Not billable
M10.27 Drug-induced gout, ankle and foot Not billable
M10.28 Drug-induced gout, vertebrae Valid
M10.29 Drug-induced gout, multiple sites Valid