M08.23
M08.23 — Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, wrist
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M08.23 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, wrist. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M08.23 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 M08.23
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M08.2. If M08.23 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M08.20Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, unspecified site
- M08.21Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, shoulder
- M08.22Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, elbow
- M08.24Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, hand
- M08.25Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, hip
- M08.26Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, knee
- M08.27Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, ankle and foot
- M08.28Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, vertebrae
- M08.29Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, multiple sites
- M08.2AJuvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset, other specified site
Questions about M08.23
- Is M08.23 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M08.23 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M08.23 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).