M08.04
M08.04 — Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMunspecified
M08.04 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M08.04 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 M08.04
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M08.0. If M08.04 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M08.00Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of unspecified site
- M08.01Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder
- M08.02Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis of elbow
- M08.03Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, wrist
- M08.05Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hip
- M08.06Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, knee
- M08.07Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, ankle and foot
- M08.08Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, vertebrae
- M08.09Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sites
- M08.0AUnspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, other specified site
Questions about M08.04
- Is M08.04 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M08.04 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M08.04 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).