M10.44
M10.44 — Other secondary gout, hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M10.44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other secondary gout, hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M10.44 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 M10.44
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M10.4. If M10.44 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M10.40Other secondary gout, unspecified site
- M10.41Other secondary gout, shoulder
- M10.42Other secondary gout, elbow
- M10.43Other secondary gout, wrist
- M10.45Other secondary gout, hip
- M10.46Other secondary gout, knee
- M10.47Other secondary gout, ankle and foot
- M10.48Other secondary gout, vertebrae
- M10.49Other secondary gout, multiple sites
Questions about M10.44
- Is M10.44 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M10.44 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M10.44 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).