N04.9
Nephrotic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 11 more
specific codes sit alongside it. Worth
checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 9 never code together
N00-N99chapter
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
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 3
Index entries leading here 6
- Nephrosis, nephrotic (Epstein's) (syndrome) (congenital) N04.9
- Anasarca R60.1
- renal N04.9
- Disease, diseased — see also Syndrome
- foot process N04.9
- Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) N05.9
- with
- foot process disease N04.9
- with
- Syndrome — see also Disease
- Lipoid — see also condition
- nephrosis N04.9
Alongside this code 11 same parent — N04
N04.0 Nephrotic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality N04.1 Nephrotic syndrome w focal and segmental glomerular lesions N04.2 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis category N04.3 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse mesangial prolif glomrlneph N04.4 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse endocaplry prolif glomrlneph N04.5 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse mesangiocapillary glomrlneph N04.6 Nephrotic syndrome with dense deposit disease N04.7 Nephrotic syndrome w diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis N04.8 Nephrotic syndrome with other morphologic changes N04.A Nephrotic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis N04.B Neph synd with imm cmplx membr prolif glomrlneph (IC-MPGN) category
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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