Other acute kidney failure

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 Other acute renal failure
FY2010 Draft description revised draft ~~Other acute renal failure~~ Other acute kidney failure

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 N17 Acute kidney failure

Excludes1 - never coded here

posttraumatic renal failure (T79.5)

Code also

associated underlying condition

Inherited from the N17-N19 section Acute kidney failure and chronic kidney disease (N17-N19)

Excludes2 - not included here

congenital renal failure (P96.0)
drug- and heavy-metal-induced tubulo-interstitial and tubular conditions (N14.-)
extrarenal uremia (R39.2)
hemolytic-uremic syndrome (D59.3-)
hepatorenal syndrome (K76.7)
postpartum hepatorenal syndrome (O90.41)
prerenal uremia (R39.2)
renal failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.4)
renal failure following labor and delivery (O90.41)
renal failure postprocedural (N99.0)

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.

Syndrome > cardiorenal Note:
Failure, failed > cardiorenal
Failure, failed > kidney > acute
Syndrome > cardiovascular renal Note:
Failure, failed > renal > acute > specified NEC

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N17.0	Acute kidney failure with tubular necrosis	Valid
N17.1	Acute kidney failure with acute cortical necrosis	Valid
N17.2	Acute kidney failure with medullary necrosis	Valid
N17.9	Acute kidney failure, unspecified	Valid