ICD 10 Juvenile Arthritis Codes – Coding & Billing Solutions
2024 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M08.9
Juvenile arthritis, unspecified
M08.9 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
The 2024 edition of ICD-10-CM M08.9 became effective on October 1, 2023.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of M08.9 – other international versions of ICD-10 M08.9 may differ.
Type 1 Excludes
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified (M08.0-)
The following code(s) above M08.9 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to M08.9:
- M00-M99 – Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
- M08 – Juvenile arthritis
Clinical Information
Rheumatoid arthritis of children occurring in three major subtypes defined by the symptoms present during the first six months following onset: systemic onset (still’s disease, juvenile onset), polyarticular onset, and pauciarticular onset; adult onset cases of still’s disease (still’s disease, adult onset) are also known; only one subtype of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (polyarticular onset, rheumatoid factor positive) clinically resembles adult rheumatoid arthritis and is considered its childhood equivalent.
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): No change