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N14.2

Nephropathy induced by unspecified drug, medicament or biological substance

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 Nephropathy induced by unspecified drug, medicament or biological substance

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 N14 Drug- and heavy-metal-induced tubulo-interstitial and tubular conditions

Use additional code

  • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5)

Code first

  • poisoning due to drug or toxin, if applicable (T36-T65 with fifth or sixth character 1-4)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
N14.0 Analgesic nephropathy Valid
N14.1 Nephropathy induced by other drugs, medicaments and biological substances Not billable
N14.3 Nephropathy induced by heavy metals Valid
N14.4 Toxic nephropathy, not elsewhere classified Valid