Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset
M08.2 is a header (parent) code in the ICD-10-CM hierarchy. It is not billable for claim submission. Use one of the billable child codes listed below.
Billable codes in this category
Each of the codes below is billable. Choose the one that most accurately describes the patient's diagnosis.
Systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still's disease) coded without specification of which joint or body site is involved — use when systemic features are documented but joint site is not.
M08.28 identifies systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still's disease, juvenile onset) where the primary documented joint involvement is the vertebrae, in a patient whose disease onset occurred before age 16.
Systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (Still's disease in children) involving multiple joint sites simultaneously, requiring both systemic features and multi-site joint documentation to support the code.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with systemic onset affecting a documented but anatomically atypical joint site not captured by the standard laterality-based subcodes in the M08.2x series.
Inclusion & exclusion notes
Includes
- Still's disease NOS
Excludes 1 (mutually exclusive — never code together)
- adult-onset Still's disease (M06.1-)