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N10

Acute pyelonephritis

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 Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis
  2. FY2017 Description revised Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis Acute pyelonephritis

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

Use additional code

  • code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent.

Also known as

  • Acute infectious interstitial nephritis
  • Acute pyelitis
  • Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis
  • Hemoglobin nephrosis
  • Myoglobin nephrosis

Inherited from the N10-N16 section Renal tubulo-interstitial diseases (N10-N16)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • pyeloureteritis cystica (N28.85)

Includes

  • pyelonephritis

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.

Showing 40 of 55 index phrases.