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N99.0

Billable

Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

Kidney failure that develops after a surgical procedure or medical intervention, which can be either short-term (acute) or long-lasting (chronic).

Coding Tips

  • •Specify whether the kidney failure is acute or chronic when documentation supports this distinction
  • •Link this code to the causative procedure in the medical record to establish the postprocedural relationship

Use Additional Code

  • code to type of kidney disease

Code Hierarchy

└N99Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of genitourinary system, not elsewhere classified└N99.0Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure
└N99.0Postprocedural (acute) (chronic) kidney failure

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