M10.0
M10.0: Idiopathic gout
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M10.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for idiopathic gout. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Gouty bursitis
- Primary gout
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M10.0
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Written on M10: Gout
- chronic gout (M1A.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with M10.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
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 M10.0
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M10.00Idiopathic gout, unspecified site
- M10.01Idiopathic gout, shoulder
- M10.02Idiopathic gout, elbow
- M10.03Idiopathic gout, wrist
- M10.04Idiopathic gout, hand
- M10.05Idiopathic gout, hip
- M10.06Idiopathic gout, knee
- M10.07Idiopathic gout, ankle and foot
- M10.08Idiopathic gout, vertebrae
- M10.09Idiopathic gout, multiple sites