N18
N18: Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
N18 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for chronic kidney disease (ckd). It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Code first
The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.
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Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
Other codes that can never be billed with N18
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.
The condition this code belongs to
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead N18
7 child codes. Green means billable.