Chronic kidney disease, stage 5
- N18.5 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2025 edition of ICD-10-CM N18.5 became effective on October 1, 2024.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of N18.5 – other international versions of ICD-10 N18.5 may differ.
Type 1 Excludes
- chronic kidney disease, stage 5 requiring chronic dialysis (N18.6)
The following code(s) above N18.5 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to N18.5:
- N00-N99 Diseases of the genitourinary system
- N17-N19 Acute kidney failure and chronic kidney disease
- N18 Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Approximate Synonyms
- Anemia co-occurrent and due to chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Anemia in chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Benign hypertensive ckd, w esrd
- Benign hypertensive heart and chronic renal disease stage 5
- Benign hypertensive heart and chronic renal disease stage 5 with congestive heart failure
- Benign hypertensive heart disease and chronic renal disease stage 5
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to benign hypertension
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to drug induced diabetes
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to hypertension
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to secondary diabetes
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Chronic kidney disease, esrd due to benign hypertension
- Chronic kidney disease, severe
- Chronic kidney failure with hypertension
- Diabetes type 1, severe chronic kidney disease
- Diabetes type 2 with severe kidney disease
- Diabetes type 2, severe chronic kidney disease
- Drug induced diabetes, severe chronic kidney disease
- Hypertension in chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Hypertensive chronic kidney disease, severe
- Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease stage 5 with congestive heart failure
- Hypertensive heart and kidney disease
- Hypertensive heart and kidney disease with congestive heart failure (chf)
- Hypertensive heart and severe chronic kidney disease
- Hypertensive heart disease, chronic kidney dis
- Hypertensive kidney and heart disease
- Hypertensive kidney disease with kidney failure
- Hypertensive, severe chronic kidney disease
- Malignant htn ckd w esrd
- Malignant hypertensive chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Malignant hypertensive chronic renal disease, stage 5
- Malignant hypertensive end stage renal disease
- Malignant hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease stage 5
- Malignant hypertensive heart and chronic renal disease, stage 5, with congestive heart failure
- Secondary diabetes with chronic kidney disease
- Severe hypertensive heart and kidney disease
Clinical Information
- Chronic, irreversible renal failure.
- Long-standing and persistent renal disease with glomerular filtration rate (gfr) less than 15 ml/min.
ICD-10-CM N18.5 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v42.0):
- 008 Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant
- 019 Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant with hemodialysis
- 673 Other kidney and urinary tract procedures with mcc
- 674 Other kidney and urinary tract procedures with cc
- 675 Other kidney and urinary tract procedures without cc/mcc
- 682 Renal failure with mcc
- 683 Renal failure with cc
- 684 Renal failure without cc/mcc
Convert N18.5 to ICD-9-CMCode 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
- 2025 (effective 10/1/2024): No change
Code annotations containing back-references to N18.5:
- Use Additional: I12.0, I13.11
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to N18.5:
- Disease, diseased – see also Syndrome
- kidney (functional) (pelvis) N28.9
- chronicN18.9
- stage 5 N18.5
- chronicN18.9
- kidney (functional) (pelvis) N28.9