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N05.8

Unspecified nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
This is the unspecified option. 10 more specific codes sit alongside it. Worth checking whether the documentation supports one of them.
Exclusions 12 never code together
N05code
Excludes1
  • nephropathy NOS with no stated morphological lesion (N28.9)N28.9
  • renal disease NOS with no stated morphological lesion (N28.9)N28.9
  • tubulo-interstitial nephritis NOS (N12)N12
N00-N08block
Excludes1
  • hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-)I12.-
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 6
N05.8code
Inclusion terms
  • Unspecified nephritic syndrome with proliferative glomerulonephritis NOS
N05code
Includes
  • glomerular disease NOS
  • glomerulonephritis NOS
  • nephritis NOS
  • nephropathy NOS and renal disease NOS with morphological lesion specified in .0-.8
N00-N08block
Code also
  • any associated kidney failure (N17-N19).N17-N19
Index entries leading here 3
  • Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) N05.9
    • with
      • glomerular lesion
        • diffuse sclerosing N05.8
      • lesion of
        • glomerulonephritis, proliferative N05.8
      • specified morphological changes NEC N05.8
    • diffuse sclerosing N05.8
    • immune complex (circulating) NEC N05.8
    • necrotic, necrotizing NEC N05.8
    • specified pathology NEC N05.8
    • proliferative NEC N05.8
    • sclerosing, diffuse N05.8
  • Glomerulonephritis N05.9
    • proliferative NEC N05.8
    • specified pathology NEC N05.8
    • immune complex (circulating) NEC N05.8
    • necrotic, necrotizing NEC N05.8
  • Nephropathy N28.9
    • proliferative NEC N05.8
Alongside this code 10 same parent — N05
N05.0 Unsp nephritic syndrome with minor glomerular abnormality N05.1 Unsp neph syndrome w focal and segmental glomerular lesions N05.2 Unsp nephritic syndrome w diffuse membranous glomrlneph N05.3 Unsp neph syndrome w diffuse mesangial prolif glomrlneph N05.4 Unsp neph syndrome w diffuse endocaplry prolif glomrlneph N05.5 Unsp nephritic syndrome w diffuse mesangiocap glomrlneph N05.6 Unspecified nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease N05.7 Unsp nephritic syndrome w diffuse crescentic glomrlneph N05.9 Unsp nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes N05.A Unspecified nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis
Additional references
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Risk adjustment

ESRD21HCC141

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This code

Billable
yes
Code set
FY2026
Parent
N05
Block
N00-N08
Siblings
10

Present FY2024–FY2027.