ICD-10-CM › N00-N99 › N10-N16 › N codes › N16
Renal tubulo-interstitial disorders in diseases classified elsewhere
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 Renal tubulo-interstitial disorders in diseases classified elsewhere
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
Excludes1 - never coded here
- diphtheritic pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis (A36.84)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in candidiasis (B37.49)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in cystinosis (E72.04)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in salmonella infection (A02.25)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in sarcoidosis (D86.84)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in Sjogren syndrome (M35.04)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.15)
- pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis in toxoplasmosis (B58.83)
- renal tubular degeneration in diabetes (E08-E13 with .29)
- syphilitic pyelonephritis and tubulo-interstitial nephritis (A52.75)
Code first
- underlying disease, such as:
- brucellosis (A23.0-A23.9)
- cryoglobulinemia (D89.1)
- glycogen storage disease (E74.0-)
- leukemia (C91-C95)
- lymphoma (C81.0-C85.9, C96.0-C96.9)
- multiple myeloma (C90.0-)
- sepsis (A40.0-A41.9)
- Wilson's disease (E83.01)
Also known as
- Pyelonephritis
- Tubulo-interstitial nephritis
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.
- Pyelitis
- Nephropathy
- Glomerulitis
- Cystopyelitis
- Pyelocystitis
- Glomerulopathy
- Klebs' disease
- Pyelonephritis
- Bright's disease
- Glomerulonephritis
- Syndrome > nephritic
- Glomerular > nephritis
- Nephrocystitis, pustular
- Disease, diseased > Klebs'
- Disease, diseased > Bright's
- Nephritis, nephritic > septic
- Disease, diseased > glomerular
- Nephritis, nephritic > purulent
- Nephritis, nephritic > ascending
- Nephritis, nephritic > infective
- Nephritis, nephritic > suppurative
- Nephritis, nephritic > interstitial
- Nephritis, nephritic > tubal, tubular
- Nephropathy > with > glomerular lesion
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > kidney
- Disease, diseased > renal > with > glomerular lesion
- Pyelonephritis > in > sepsis
- Pyelonephritis > in > brucellosis
- Pyelonephritis > in > leukemia NEC
- Pyelonephritis > in > lymphoma NEC
- Pyelonephritis > in > cryoglobulinemia
- Pyelonephritis > in > multiple myeloma
- Pyelonephritis > in > Wilson's disease
- Disorder > tubulo-interstitial > sepsis
- Pyelonephritis > in > transplant rejection
- Disorder > tubulo-interstitial > brucellosis
- Disorder > tubulo-interstitial > leukemia NEC
- Disorder > tubulo-interstitial > lymphoma NEC
- Pyelonephritis > in > glycogen storage disease
- Disorder > tubulo-interstitial > multiple myeloma
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