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N03.A

Chronic nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2021 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2021 to now.

  1. FY2021 Added to the code set Chronic nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis

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 N03 Chronic nephritic syndrome

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).

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
N03.0 Chronic nephritic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality Valid
N03.1 Chronic nephritic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesions Valid
N03.2 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis Valid
N03.3 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis Valid
N03.4 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis Valid
N03.5 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis Valid
N03.6 Chronic nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease Valid
N03.7 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis Valid
N03.8 Chronic nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes Valid
N03.9 Chronic nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes Valid