ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M1A.3 Chronic gout due to renal impairment › M1A.38

M1A.38

Chronic gout due to renal impairment, vertebrae

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.38X0 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, vertebrae, without tophus (tophi)
  • M1A.38X1 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, vertebrae, 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 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, vertebrae

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.30 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, unspecified site Not billable
M1A.31 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, shoulder Not billable
M1A.32 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, elbow Not billable
M1A.33 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, wrist Not billable
M1A.34 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, hand Not billable
M1A.35 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, hip Not billable
M1A.36 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, knee Not billable
M1A.37 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, ankle and foot Not billable
M1A.39 Chronic gout due to renal impairment, multiple sites Not billable