M06.8
Other specified rheumatoid arthritis
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
M00-M99chapter
Excludes2
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)L40.5-
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)T79.A-
- 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
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 2
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Alongside this code 6 same parent — M06
Subordinate codes 11
M06.80 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified site M06.81 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, shoulder M06.82 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, elbow M06.83 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, wrist M06.84 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, hand M06.85 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, hip M06.86 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, knee M06.87 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, ankle and foot M06.88 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, vertebrae M06.89 Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sites M06.8A Other specified rheumatoid arthritis, other specified site
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.
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