M1A.37 - Chronic gout due to renal impairment, ankle and foot
ICD-10-CM Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue · M05-M14 Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14) · Subcategory of M1A.3 · FY2027
Coding Guidance
M1A.37 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 3 more specific codes below.
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category M1A
- 0without tophus (tophi)
- 1with tophus (tophi)
Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes
Sequence the underlying condition before this code.
- associated renal disease
Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.
- gout NOS (M10.-)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- acute gout (M10.-)
Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.
- code to identify:
- Autonomic neuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere (G99.0)
- Calculus of urinary tract in diseases classified elsewhere (N22)
- Cardiomyopathy in diseases classified elsewhere (I43)
- Disorders of external ear in diseases classified elsewhere (H61.1-, H62.8-)
- Disorders of iris and ciliary body in diseases classified elsewhere (H22)
- Glomerular disorders in diseases classified elsewhere (N08)
Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- 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)
Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
More Specific Codes (3)
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More specific codes for M1A.37
Codes at the same level as M1A.37
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, unspecified siteM1A.30
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, shoulderM1A.31
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, elbowM1A.32
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, wristM1A.33
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, handM1A.34
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, hipM1A.35
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, kneeM1A.36
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, vertebraeM1A.38
- Chronic gout due to renal impairment, multiple sitesM1A.39