M1A.34

M1A.34: Chronic gout due to renal impairment, hand

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M1A.34 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for chronic gout due to renal impairment, hand. 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.34

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M1A: Chronic gout

gout NOS (M10.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M1A.34

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.34

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.34

3 child codes. Green means billable.