Disorder of kidney and ureter, unspecified

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 Disorder of kidney and ureter, unspecified

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 N25-N29 section Other disorders of kidney and ureter (N25-N29)

Excludes2 - not included here

disorders of kidney and ureter with urolithiasis (N20-N23)

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.

Malfunction
Change > renal
Damage > renal
Lesion > kidney
Trouble > kidney
Complaint > kidney
Dysfunction > kidney
Destruction, destructive
Disease, diseased > renal
Nephropathy
Shutdown, renal
Cachexia > renal
Disorder > kidney
Disorder > ureter
Suppression > renal
Complication > renal
Inefficiency, kidney
Block, blocked > kidney
Low > function > kidney
Nonfunctioning > kidney
Disease, diseased > renal
Disease, diseased > kidney
Disease, diseased > ureter
Impaired, impairment > renal
Impaired, impairment > kidney
Disease, diseased > renal > acute
Insufficiency, insufficient > renal
Insufficiency, insufficient > kidney
Depletion > salt or sodium > nephropathy
Insufficiency, insufficient > kidney > acute

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
N28.0	Ischemia and infarction of kidney	Valid
N28.1	Cyst of kidney, acquired	Valid
N28.8	Other specified disorders of kidney and ureter	Not billable