N00.6 Acute nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Major Complication or Comorbidity (MCC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Acute nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulopathy with dense deposit disease
• Acute nephritic syndrome with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, type 2

Applies from N00 Acute nephritic syndrome

Includes

• acute glomerular disease
• acute glomerulonephritis
• acute nephritis

Excludes1 (never code together)

• acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis (N10)
• nephritic syndrome NOS (N05.-)

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 698-700 in MDC 11.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 580.0 Acute glomerulonephritis with lesion of proliferative glomerulonephritis (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to N00.6

Back-references to N00.6

• Type 1 Excludes: N00.A Acute nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis ("Acute nephritic syndrome (with C3 glomerulopathy) with dense deposit disease (N00.6)")

Diagnosis Index entries for N00.6

• Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) › acute › with › C3 › glomerulopathy › with dense deposit disease
• Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) › acute › with › dense deposit disease

Nearby codes

• N00.1 Acute nephritic syndrome with focal and segmental glomerular lesions
• N00.2 Acute nephritic syndrome with diffuse membranous glomerulonephritis
• N00.3 Acute nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
• N00.4 Acute nephritic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis
• N00.5 Acute nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
• N00.6 Acute nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease (this code)
• N00.7 Acute nephritic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis
• N00.8 Acute nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes
• N00.9 Acute nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes
• N00.A Acute nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis
• N00.B Acute nephritic syndrome with immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis