M08
Juvenile arthritis
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 14 never code together
M08code
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
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 5
Index entries leading here filed at null
No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Subordinate codes 7
M08.0 Unspecified juvenile rheumatoid arthritis M08.1 Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis M08.2 Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset M08.3 Juvenile rheumatoid polyarthritis (seronegative) M08.4 Pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis M08.8 Other juvenile arthritis M08.9 Juvenile arthritis, unspecified
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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