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N03
Chronic nephritic syndrome
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 11 more specific codes instead:
- N03.0 Chronic nephritic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality
- N03.1 Chronic nephritic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesions
- N03.2 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis
- N03.3 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
- N03.4 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis
- N03.5 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
- N03.6 Chronic nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease
- N03.7 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis
- N03.8 Chronic nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes
- N03.9 Chronic nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes
- N03.A Chronic nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis
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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Chronic nephritic syndrome
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.
This code
Excludes1 - never coded here
- chronic tubulo-interstitial nephritis (N11.-)
- diffuse sclerosing glomerulonephritis (N05.8-)
- nephritic syndrome NOS (N05.-)
Includes
- chronic glomerular disease
- chronic glomerulonephritis
- chronic nephritis
Inherited from the N00-N08 section Glomerular diseases (N00-N08)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-)
Code also
- any associated kidney failure (N17-N19).