M05.17
M05.17 — Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of ankle and foot
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M05.17 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of ankle and foot. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis, tarsus, metatarsus and phalanges
Risk adjustment
M05.17 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead M05.17
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M05.1. If M05.17 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M05.10Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site
- M05.11Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of shoulder
- M05.12Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of elbow
- M05.13Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of wrist
- M05.14Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of hand
- M05.15Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of hip
- M05.16Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of knee
- M05.19Rheumatoid lung disease with rheumatoid arthritis of multiple sites
Questions about M05.17
- Is M05.17 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M05.17 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M05.17 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).