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I12.9

Hypertensive chronic kidney disease with stage 1 through stage 4 chronic kidney disease, or unspecified chronic kidney disease

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 1 more specific code sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 17 never code together
I12code
Excludes1
  • hypertension due to kidney disease (I15.0, I15.1)I15.0I15.1
  • renovascular hypertension (I15.0)I15.0
  • secondary hypertension (I15.-)I15.-
Excludes2
  • acute kidney failure (N17.-)N17.-
I10-I1Ablock
Excludes1
  • neonatal hypertension (P29.2)P29.2
  • primary pulmonary hypertension (I27.0)I27.0
Excludes2
  • hypertensive disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O10-O11, O13-O16)O10-O11O13-O16
I00-I99chapter
Excludes2
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
  • systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)M30-M36
  • transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes (G45.-)G45.-

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 14
I12code
Includes
  • any condition in N18 and N26 - due to hypertensionN18N26
  • arteriosclerosis of kidney
  • arteriosclerotic nephritis (chronic) (interstitial)
  • hypertensive nephropathy
  • nephrosclerosis
I12.9code
Inclusion terms
  • Hypertensive chronic kidney disease NOS
  • Hypertensive renal disease NOS
Use additional code
I10-I1Ablock
Use additional code
  • code to identify:
  • exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)Z77.22
  • history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)Z87.891
  • occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z57.31)Z57.31
  • tobacco dependence (F17.-)F17.-
  • tobacco use (Z72.0)Z72.0
Index entries leading here 1
  • Hypertension, hypertensive (accelerated) (benign) (essential) (idiopathic) (malignant) (systemic) I10
    • kidney I12.9
      • with
        • stage 1 through stage 4 chronic kidney disease I12.9
Alongside this code 1 same parent — I12
Medications 1

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

Additional references
AHA Coding Clinic® Licence required

Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.

Risk adjustment

ESRD21HCC139 RX08HCC187

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Parent
I12
Block
I10-I1A
Siblings
1

Present FY2024–FY2027.