M08.2

M08.2: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M08.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

adult-onset Still's disease (M06.1-)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Still's disease NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M08.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M08: Juvenile arthritis

arthropathy in Whipple's disease (M14.8)
Felty's syndrome (M05.0)
juvenile dermatomyositis (M33.0-)
psoriatic juvenile arthropathy (L40.54)

Other codes that can never be billed with M08.2

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

M06.1Adult-onset Still's disease
M05Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead M08.2

11 child codes. Green means billable.