M08.4
M08.4 — Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M08.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M08.4 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 M08.4
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M08.40Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified site
- M08.41Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder
- M08.42Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, elbow
- M08.43Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, wrist
- M08.44Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand
- M08.45Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hip
- M08.46Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, knee
- M08.47Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, ankle and foot
- M08.48Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, vertebrae
- M08.4APauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, other specified site
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M08. If M08.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M08.4
- Is M08.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M08.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M08.4 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).