Valid for Submission
N05.9 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of unspecified nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code N05.9 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like anal atresia, bacterial nephritis, congenital nephritis, congenital nephritis, congenital nephritis, cytomegalovirus-induced glomerulonephritis, etc
| ICD-10: | N05.9 |
| Short Description: | Unsp nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes |
| Long Description: | Unspecified nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes |
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code N05.9 are found in the index:
- - Disorder (of) - See Also: Disease;
- - glomerular (in) - N05.9
- - Glomerulonephritis - See Also: Nephritis; - N05.9
- - poststreptococcal NEC - N05.9
- - Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) - N05.9
- - with
- - lesion of
- - renal necrosis - N05.9
- - lesion of
- - poststreptococcal - N05.9
- - with
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Anal atresia
- Bacterial nephritis
- Congenital nephritis
- Congenital nephritis
- Congenital nephritis
- Cytomegalovirus-induced glomerulonephritis
- De novo glomerulonephritis
- De novo transplant disease
- Dyschondrosteosis and nephritis syndrome
- Exudative nephritis
- Glomerular disease
- Glomerulitis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Idiopathic glomerular disease
- Idiopathic glomerulonephritis
- Immunotactoid glomerulonephritis
- Lowe Kohn Cohen syndrome
- Membranous glomerulonephritis
- Nephritic syndrome
- Nephritic syndrome
- Nephritis
- Nephrotic syndrome associated with another disorder
- Nephrotic syndrome secondary to glomerulonephritis
- Nephrotic-nephritic syndrome
- Non-amyloid fibrillary glomerulonephritis
- Post-infectious glomerulonephritis
- Post-infectious glomerulonephritis - Garland variety
- Pulmonary renal syndrome
- Radiation nephritis
- Renal hematuria
- Renal hematuria
- Renal vasculitis
- Shunt nephritis
- Transplant glomerulopathy
- Transplant glomerulopathy - early form
- Transplant glomerulopathy - late form
- Vasculitis with glomerulonephritis
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code N05.9 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2019 through 09/30/2020.
- 698 - OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC
- 699 - OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH CC
- 700 - OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC
Convert N05.9 to ICD-9
- 583.0 - Proliferat nephritis NOS (Approximate Flag)
- 583.4 - Rapidly prog nephrit NOS (Approximate Flag)
- 583.9 - Nephritis NOS (Approximate Flag)
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020