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M1A.272

M1A.272: Drug-induced chronic gout, left ankle and foot

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M1A.272 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for drug-induced chronic gout, left ankle and foot. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category M1A

0
without tophus (tophi)
1
with tophus (tophi)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M1A.272

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M1A: Chronic gout

  • gout NOS (M10.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M1A.272

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on M1A: Chronic gout

  • acute gout (M10.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with M1A.272

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

  • E72Other disorders of amino-acid metabolism
  • E79Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

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 M1A.272

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under M1A.27

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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