N03.8 Chronic nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes

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

Applicable to

• Chronic nephritic syndrome with proliferative glomerulonephritis NOS

Applies from N03 Chronic nephritic syndrome

Includes

• chronic glomerular disease
• chronic glomerulonephritis
• chronic nephritis

Excludes1 (never code together)

• chronic tubulo-interstitial nephritis (N11.-)
• diffuse sclerosing glomerulonephritis (N05.8-)
• nephritic syndrome NOS (N05.-)

MS-DRG index

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

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 582.4 Chronic glomerulonephritis with lesion of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (approximate)
• 582.89 Chronic glomerulonephritis with other specified pathological lesion in kidney (approximate)

Diagnosis Index entries for N03.8

• Nephritis, nephritic (albuminuric) (azotemic) (congenital) (disseminated) (epithelial) (familial) (focal) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (infantile) (nonsuppurative, excretory) (uremic) › chronic › with › specified morphological changes NEC

Nearby codes

• N03.3 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis
• N03.4 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis
• N03.5 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis
• N03.6 Chronic nephritic syndrome with dense deposit disease
• N03.7 Chronic nephritic syndrome with diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis
• N03.8 Chronic nephritic syndrome with other morphologic changes (this code)
• N03.9 Chronic nephritic syndrome with unspecified morphologic changes
• N03.A Chronic nephritic syndrome with C3 glomerulonephritis