N00.6

N00.6: Acute nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

N00.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for acute nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Acute nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulopathy with dense deposit disease
Acute nephritic syndrome with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, type 2

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above N00.6

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on N00: Acute nephritic syndrome

acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis (N10)
nephritic syndrome NOS (N05.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with N00.6

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

N00.AAcute nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

N00.6 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies: 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A54548Billing and Coding: Eculizumab, and Biosimilars: EPYSQLI®-eculizumab-aagh, and BKEMV™-eculizumab-aeeb
A55336Billing and Coding: Retroperitoneal Ultrasound
A57189Billing and Coding: Serum Magnesium

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Nephritis, nephritic›acute›with›dense deposit disease
Nephritis, nephritic›acute›with›C3›glomerulopathy›with dense deposit disease

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.