ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
M08.8 Other juvenile arthritis
Header codeNot billable: use one of the 24 billable codes below
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Coding notes for M08.8
No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.
Also applies, from M08 Juvenile arthritis
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
Code also Another code may be needed as well; the order depends on the encounter.
Chapter 13 notes (apply to every code in it)
Note
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Codes under M08.8 31
- M08.80 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified siteBillable
- M08.81 Other juvenile arthritis, shoulderHeader
- M08.811 Other juvenile arthritis, right shoulderBillable
- M08.812 Other juvenile arthritis, left shoulderBillable
- M08.819 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified shoulderBillable
- M08.82 Other juvenile arthritis, elbowHeader
- M08.821 Other juvenile arthritis, right elbowBillable
- M08.822 Other juvenile arthritis, left elbowBillable
- M08.829 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified elbowBillable
- M08.83 Other juvenile arthritis, wristHeader
- M08.831 Other juvenile arthritis, right wristBillable
- M08.832 Other juvenile arthritis, left wristBillable
- M08.839 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified wristBillable
- M08.84 Other juvenile arthritis, handHeader
- M08.841 Other juvenile arthritis, right handBillable
- M08.842 Other juvenile arthritis, left handBillable
- M08.849 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified handBillable
- M08.85 Other juvenile arthritis, hipHeader
- M08.851 Other juvenile arthritis, right hipBillable
- M08.852 Other juvenile arthritis, left hipBillable
- M08.859 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified hipBillable
- M08.86 Other juvenile arthritis, kneeHeader
- M08.861 Other juvenile arthritis, right kneeBillable
- M08.862 Other juvenile arthritis, left kneeBillable
- M08.869 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified kneeBillable
- M08.87 Other juvenile arthritis, ankle and footHeader
- M08.871 Other juvenile arthritis, right ankle and footBillable
- M08.872 Other juvenile arthritis, left ankle and footBillable
- M08.879 Other juvenile arthritis, unspecified ankle and footBillable
- M08.88 Other juvenile arthritis, other specified siteBillable
- M08.89 Other juvenile arthritis, multiple sitesBillable
Related codes in M08
- M08.0 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritisHeader
- M08.1 Juvenile ankylosing spondylitisBillable
- M08.2 Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onsetHeader
- M08.3 Juvenile rheumatoid polyarthritis (seronegative)Billable
- M08.4 Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritisHeader
- M08.9 Juvenile arthritis, unspecifiedHeader
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