Diagnosis Code: N17.9

Short Description: Acute kidney failure, unspecified

Long Description: Acute kidney failure, unspecified

The code N17.9 is VALID for claim submission

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00–N99)
  • Acute kidney failure and chronic kidney disease (N17-N19)
    • Acute kidney failure (N17)
      • N17.9 Acute kidney failure, unspecified

Code Version: 2022 ICD-10-CM

Synonyms

• Acute kidney failure stage 1
• Acute kidney failure stage 2
• Acute kidney failure stage 3
• Acute kidney injury
• Acute kidney injury caused by contrast agent
• Acute kidney injury due to COVID-19
• Acute kidney injury due to hypovolemia
• Acute kidney injury due to sepsis
• Acute kidney injury following administration of contrast media
• Acute nontraumatic kidney injury
• Acute renal failure due to ACE inhibitor
• Acute renal failure due to obstruction
• Acute renal failure due to procedure
• Acute renal failure on dialysis
• Acute renal failure with oliguria
• Acute-on-chronic renal failure
• Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor adverse reaction
• Nephrotoxic acute renal failure
• Nephrotoxic acute renal failure
• Postprocedural acute renal failure
• Prerenal renal failure
• Prerenal renal failure
• Transient acute renal failure

Diagnostic Related Group(s)

The code N17.9 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v39.0)

• Other Kidney And Urinary Tract Procedures With Mcc (673)
• Other Kidney And Urinary Tract Procedures With Cc (674)
• Other Kidney And Urinary Tract Procedures Without Cc/mcc (675)

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code N17.9 has the following ICD-10-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Inclusion Terms:
  • Acute kidney injury (nontraumatic)
• Type 2 Excludes Notes:
  • traumatic kidney injury (@S37.0*-)

Crosswalk Information

Similar Codes

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2023

« Previous Code