M05.54
M05.54 — Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M05.54 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of hand. 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 polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis, metacarpus and phalanges
Risk adjustment
M05.54 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 M05.54
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M05.5. If M05.54 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M05.50Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site
- M05.51Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of shoulder
- M05.52Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of elbow
- M05.53Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of wrist
- M05.55Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of hip
- M05.56Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of knee
- M05.57Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of ankle and foot
- M05.59Rheumatoid polyneuropathy with rheumatoid arthritis of multiple sites
Questions about M05.54
- Is M05.54 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M05.54 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M05.54 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).