ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M1A.21 Drug-induced chronic gout, shoulder › M1A.212

M1A.212

Drug-induced chronic gout, left shoulder

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 2 more specific codes instead:

  • M1A.2120 Drug-induced chronic gout, left shoulder, without tophus (tophi)
  • M1A.2121 Drug-induced chronic gout, left shoulder, with tophus (tophi)

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Drug-induced chronic gout, left shoulder

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 M1A Chronic gout

Seventh character required

  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category M1A

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • gout NOS (M10.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • acute gout (M10.-)

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)

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
M1A.211 Drug-induced chronic gout, right shoulder Not billable
M1A.219 Drug-induced chronic gout, unspecified shoulder Not billable