M08.9

M08.9: Juvenile arthritis, unspecified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M08.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for juvenile arthritis, unspecified. 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.

juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified (M08.0-)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M08.9

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 M08.9

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 M08.9

11 child codes. Green means billable.