N19

Unspecified kidney failure

Billable / specific

N19 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Uremia NOS

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • acute kidney failure (N17.-)
  • chronic kidney disease (N18.-)
  • chronic uremia (N18.9)
  • extrarenal uremia (R39.2)
  • prerenal uremia (R39.2)
  • renal insufficiency (acute) (N28.9)
  • uremia of newborn (P96.0)

Excludes2

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

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
  • congenital renal failure (P96.0)
  • drug- and heavy-metal-induced tubulo-interstitial and tubular conditions (N14.-)
  • extrarenal uremia (R39.2)
  • hemolytic-uremic syndrome (D59.3-)
  • hepatorenal syndrome (K76.7)
  • postpartum hepatorenal syndrome (O90.41)
  • posttraumatic renal failure (T79.5)
  • prerenal uremia (R39.2)
  • renal failure complicating abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.4)
  • renal failure following labor and delivery (O90.41)
  • renal failure postprocedural (N99.0)

Also known as

  • Uremia NOS
  • Azotemia, meaning uremia
  • Failure, failed, kidney
  • Failure, failed, renal
  • Stasis, kidney
  • Stasis, renal
  • Uremia, uremic

Related codes

  • N17Acute kidney failureHeader
  • N18Chronic kidney disease (CKD)Header

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