Version 2024

2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M02.3

Reiter's disease

ICD-10-CM Code:
M02.3
ICD-10 Code for:
Reiter's disease
Is Billable?
Not Valid for Submission
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Code Classification

  • Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
    (M00–M99)
    • Infectious arthropathies
      (M00-M02)
      • Postinfective and reactive arthropathies
        (M02)

M02.3 is a non-specific and non-billable diagnosis code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of reiter's disease. The code is not specific and is NOT valid for the year 2024 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. Category or Header define the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th characters.

Specific Coding Applicable to Reiter's disease

Non-specific codes like M02.3 require more digits to indicate the appropriate level of specificity. Consider using any of the following ICD-10-CM codes with a higher level of specificity when coding for reiter's disease:

  • Use M02.30 for Reiter's disease, unspecified site - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.31 for Reiter's disease, shoulder - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.311 for Reiter's disease, right shoulder - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.312 for Reiter's disease, left shoulder - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.319 for Reiter's disease, unspecified shoulder - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.32 for Reiter's disease, elbow - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.321 for Reiter's disease, right elbow - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.322 for Reiter's disease, left elbow - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.329 for Reiter's disease, unspecified elbow - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.33 for Reiter's disease, wrist - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.331 for Reiter's disease, right wrist - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.332 for Reiter's disease, left wrist - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.339 for Reiter's disease, unspecified wrist - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.34 for Reiter's disease, hand - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.341 for Reiter's disease, right hand - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.342 for Reiter's disease, left hand - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.349 for Reiter's disease, unspecified hand - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.35 for Reiter's disease, hip - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.351 for Reiter's disease, right hip - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.352 for Reiter's disease, left hip - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.359 for Reiter's disease, unspecified hip - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.36 for Reiter's disease, knee - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.361 for Reiter's disease, right knee - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.362 for Reiter's disease, left knee - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.369 for Reiter's disease, unspecified knee - BILLABLE CODE

  • M02.37 for Reiter's disease, ankle and foot - NON-BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.371 for Reiter's disease, right ankle and foot - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.372 for Reiter's disease, left ankle and foot - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.379 for Reiter's disease, unspecified ankle and foot - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.38 for Reiter's disease, vertebrae - BILLABLE CODE

  • Use M02.39 for Reiter's disease, multiple sites - BILLABLE CODE

Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries

The following annotation back-references are applicable to this diagnosis code. The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10-CM codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with coding notes and guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more.


Inclusion Terms

Inclusion Terms
These terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
  • Reactive arthritis

Patient Education


Infectious Arthritis

Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint. The infection comes from a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection that spreads from another part of the body. Symptoms of infectious arthritis include:

  • Intense pain in the joint
  • Joint redness and swelling
  • Chills and fever
  • Inability to move the area with the infected joint

One type of infectious arthritis is reactive arthritis. The reaction is to an infection somewhere else in your body. The joint is usually the knee, ankle, or toe. Sometimes, reactive arthritis is set off by an infection in the bladder, or in the urethra, which carries urine out of the body. In women, an infection in the vagina can cause the reaction. For both men and women, it can start with bacteria passed on during sex. Another form of reactive arthritis starts with eating food or handling something that has bacteria on it.

To diagnose infectious arthritis, your health care provider may do tests of your blood, urine, and joint fluid. Treatment includes medicines and sometimes surgery.


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Reactive Arthritis

Reactive arthritis happens when a recent bacterial infection causes joint pain and swelling.
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Code History

  • FY 2024 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2023 through 9/30/2024
  • FY 2023 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2022 through 9/30/2023
  • FY 2022 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2021 through 9/30/2022
  • FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
  • FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
  • FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
  • FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
  • FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
  • FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016. This was the first year ICD-10-CM was implemented into the HIPAA code set.