Balkan nephropathy

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Balkan nephropathy

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 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
Disease, diseased > Klebs'
Disease, diseased > Bright's
Disease, diseased > glomerular
Nephropathy > with > glomerular lesion
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > kidney
Disease, diseased > renal > with > glomerular lesion
Nephropathy > Balkan
Nephritis, nephritic > Balkan

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N15.1	Renal and perinephric abscess	Valid
N15.8	Other specified renal tubulo-interstitial diseases	Valid
N15.9	Renal tubulo-interstitial disease, unspecified	Valid