M08.94
M08.94 — Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMunspecified
M08.94 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for juvenile arthritis, unspecified, hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M08.94 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 M08.94
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M08.9. If M08.94 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M08.90Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, unspecified site
- M08.91Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, shoulder
- M08.92Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, elbow
- M08.93Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, wrist
- M08.95Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, hip
- M08.96Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, knee
- M08.97Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, ankle and foot
- M08.98Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, vertebrae
- M08.99Juvenile arthritis, unspecified, multiple sites
- M08.9AJuvenile arthritis, unspecified, other specified site
Questions about M08.94
- Is M08.94 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M08.94 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M08.94 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).