Kidney, renal failure/insufficiency/uremia, unspecified as acute or chronic

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ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx: Kidney, renal failure/insufficiency/uremia, unspecified as acute or chronic
ICD10 code: N19
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: none assigned
Charlson/ALERT Scale: Renal disease
APACHE Como Component: none
APACHE Acute Component: 2019-0: Metabolic/Renal NOS, 2019-0: Renal/Metabolic NOS
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Additional Info

ESRD vs Acute Renal Failure

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  • UNLESS the patient has had a renal transplant and the transplanted kidney was functioning (and thus can experience acute renal failure)

About "Acute on Chronic renal failure"

  • Our definition for CRF includes two things, as above. If you are on dialysis then it is technically not possible to also have acute renal failure. And while our threshold of creatinine clearance < 15 ml/min USUALLY gets people on dialysis, that's not always the case. In other words, there are some people who don't need to start dialysis until their clearance is <10 or even 8 ml/min. THOSE people who by our definition have Stage 5 CKD cannot have ARF but rather this is considered a progression of their underlying disease. Instead of coding ARF, code the reason for dialysis ie. Fluid overload, Hyperkalemia, severe or symptomatic etc combined with Chronic kidney disease (end-stage renal/kidney disease, ESRD), Stage 5, GFR LT 15
  • And of course, if you previously had Stage 5, were on dialysis, then got a successful renal transplant, then you CAN get acute renal failure in your graft.


Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition

Chronic kidney disease codes:
Renal failure codes:

Candidate Combined ICD10 codes

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Legacy Info

We understand that the definition in the ICD10 codes is different than the definition in ARF (Diagnosis) and ARI and CRF - Chronic Renal Failure was. We are OK with that and will use the new definitions for the new codes, and the old ones for the old codes. Hopefully we can limit the amount of time where we consider both.

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