N25.0 — Renal osteodystrophy
N25.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for renal osteodystrophy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Azotemic osteodystrophy
- Phosphate-losing tubular disorders
- Renal rickets
- Renal short stature
Other codes that can never be billed with N25.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at N25.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading N25.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
N25.0 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.
Medicare coverage
N25.0 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How N25.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to N25.0.
- Phosphate-losing tubular disorder
- Pseudorickets(renal)
- Disorder›phosphate-losing tubular
- Disorder›tubular, phosphate-losing
- Dwarfism›renal
- Infancy, infantile, infantilism›renal
- Nephropathy›phosphate-losing
- Osteodystrophy›azotemic
- Osteodystrophy›renal
- Osteosis›renal fibrocystic
- Rachitis, rachitism›renalis
- Rickets›kidney
Related codes at this level
Codes that share N25. If N25.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about N25.0
- Is N25.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. N25.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does N25.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99), in the block Other disorders of kidney and ureter (N25-N29).