N04.9

Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes

Billable / specific

N04.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Includes (from N04)

  • congenital nephrotic syndrome
  • lipoid nephrosis

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-) (from N04)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from N04)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from N04)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from N04)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from N04)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from N04)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from N04)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from N04)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from N04)

Code also

An additional code may be needed.

  • any associated kidney failure (N17-N19). (from N04)

Also known as

  • Anasarca, renal
  • Disease, diseased, foot process
  • Lipoid, nephrosis
  • Nephritis, nephritic, with foot process disease
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic, with foot process disease
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic, acute
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic, lipoid
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic, radiation
  • Nephrosis, nephrotic, tubular, radiation
  • Syndrome, idiopathic, nephrotic
  • Syndrome, nephrotic

Parent code

  • N04Nephrotic syndromeHeader

Related codes

  • N04.0Nephrotic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormalityBillable
  • N04.1Nephrotic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesionsBillable
  • N04.2Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritisHeader
  • N04.3Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritisBillable
  • N04.4Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritisBillable
  • N04.5Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritisBillable
  • N04.6Nephrotic syndrome with dense deposit diseaseBillable
  • N04.7Nephrotic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritisBillable
  • N04.8Nephrotic syndrome with other morphologic changesBillable
  • N04.ANephrotic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritisBillable
  • N04.BNephrotic syndrome with immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN)Header

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