ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N10-N16 › N14 Drug- and heavy-metal-induced... › N14.3
Nephropathy induced by heavy metals
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Nephropathy induced by heavy metals
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.
- Nephropathy
- Glomerulitis
- Glomerulopathy
- Klebs' disease
- Bright's disease
- Glomerulonephritis
- Syndrome > nephritic
- Glomerular > nephritis
- Nephropathy > chemical
- Disease, diseased > Klebs'
- Disease, diseased > Bright's
- Nephritis, nephritic > toxic
- Disease, diseased > glomerular
- Nephropathy > with > glomerular lesion
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > kidney
- Disease, diseased > renal > with > glomerular lesion
- Nephritis, nephritic > antitubular basement membrane NEC > toxic
- Nephropathy > lead
- Nephropathy > saturnine
- Nephritis, nephritic > lead
- Nephritis, nephritic > saturnine
- Nephropathy > heavy metal-induced
- Nephropathy > toxic NEC > due to > heavy metals
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| N14.0 | Analgesic nephropathy | Valid |
| N14.1 | Nephropathy induced by other drugs, medicaments and biological substances | Not billable |
| N14.2 | Nephropathy induced by unspecified drug, medicament or biological substance | Valid |
| N14.4 | Toxic nephropathy, not elsewhere classified | Valid |