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M08.44

M08.44: Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M08.44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M08.44

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 M08.44

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

  • 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 M08.44

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under M08.4

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release: see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.