Disorder of kidney and ureter, unspecified
Billable / specific
N28.9 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
- Nephropathy NOS
- Renal disease (acute) NOS
- Renal insufficiency (acute)
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from N28)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from N28)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from N28)
- congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from N28)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from N28)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from N28)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from N28)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from N28)
- disorders of kidney and ureter with urolithiasis (N20-N23) (from N28)
Also known as
- Nephropathy NOS
- Renal disease (acute) NOS
- Renal insufficiency (acute)
- Block, blocked, kidney
- Cachexia, renal
- Complication, renal
- Depletion, salt or sodium, nephropathy
- Disease, diseased, kidney
- Disease, diseased, renal
- Disease, diseased, renal, acute
- Disease, diseased, ureter
- Disorder, kidney
- Disorder, ureter
- Impaired, impairment, kidney
- Impaired, impairment, renal
- Inefficiency, kidney
- Insufficiency, insufficient, kidney
- Insufficiency, insufficient, kidney, acute
Parent code
- N28Other disorders of kidney and ureter, not elsewhere classifiedHeader