2025 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code N18.6

End stage renal disease

  • N18.6 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 N18.6 became effective on October 1, 2024.
  • This is the American ICD-10-CM version of N18.6 – other international versions of ICD-10 N18.6 may differ.

Applicable To

  • Chronic kidney disease requiring chronic dialysis

Use Additional

  • code to identify dialysis status (Z99.2)

The following code(s) above N18.6 contain annotation back-references

 that may be applicable to N18.6:

  • N00-N99  Diseases of the genitourinary system
  • N17-N19  Acute kidney failure and chronic kidney disease
  • N18  Chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Approximate Synonyms

  • Anemia due to end stage renal disease
  • Anemia in end stage renal disease
  • Anemia, end stage renal disease
  • Benign htn heart and ckd, esrd, w chf
  • Benign hypertensive heart and end stage renal disease
  • Benign hypertensive heart and end stage renal disease with congestive heart failure
  • Chronic kidney disease
  • Chronic kidney disease due to type 2 diabetes mellitus with hyperparathyroidism due to end stage renal disease on dialysis
  • Chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis
  • Chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to drug induced diabetes mellitus
  • Chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to secondary diabetes mellitus
  • Chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 1 diabetes mellitus
  • Chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Chronic kidney disease, esrd due to benign hypertension
  • Chronic kidney failure with hypertension
  • Dependence on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis due to end stage renal disease
  • Dependence on continuous cyclic peritoneal dialysis due to end stage renal disease
  • Dependence on dialysis due to end stage renal disease
  • Dependence on hemodialysis due to end stage renal disease
  • Dependence on peritoneal dialysis due to end stage renal disease
  • Diabetes 1 with end stage renal disease on dialysis
  • Diabetes 2 with end stage renal disease on dialysis
  • Diabetes type 1 on dialysis
  • Diabetes type 2 on dialysis
  • Dm 2 w diabetic ckd, secondary hyperparathyroidism due to esrd, on dialysis
  • Drug induced diabetes chronic kidney disease, dialysis
  • End stage renal disease due to hypertension
  • End stage renal disease due to hypertension, on dialysis
  • End stage renal disease on dialysis
  • End stage renal disease on dialysis due to hypertension
  • End stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • End stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis
  • Esrd on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
  • Esrd on continuous cyclic peritoneal dialysis
  • Hyperparathyroidism due to end stage renal disease on dialysis
  • Hypertension concurrent and due to end stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Hypertension in chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 1 diabetes mellitus
  • Hypertension in chronic kidney disease with end stage renal disease on dialysis due to type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Hypertensive chronic kidney disease on dialysis
  • Hypertensive chronic kidney disease with dialysis
  • Hypertensive chronic kidney disease, severe
  • Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease on dialysis
  • Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease on dialysis with congestive heart failure
  • Hypertensive heart and kidney disease
  • Hypertensive heart disease, kidney disease
  • Hypertensive kidney and heart disease, on dialysis
  • Malignant htn ckd w esrd on dialysis
  • Malignant hypertensive end stage renal disease
  • Malignant hypertensive end stage renal disease on dialysis
  • Malignant hypertensive heart and end stage renal disease with congestive heart failure
  • Secondary diabetes, chronic kidney disease on dialysis
  • Secondary hyperparathyroidism due to esrd, on dialysis
  • Severe chronic kidney failure with hypertension
  • Severe chronic kidney failure with hypertension (htn) on dialysis

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 N18.6 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 N18.6 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 N18.6:

  • Code Also: Z49
  • Type 1 Excludes: N18.5
  • Use Additional: E08.22, E09.22, E10.22, E11.22, E13.22, Q87.81, I12.0, I13.11

Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to N18.6:

  • Disease, diseased – see also Syndrome
    • end stage renal (ESRD) N18.6
    • renal (functional) (pelvis) N28.9 – see also Disease, kidney
      • end-stage (failure) N18.6
  • Failure, failed
    • renalN19
      • end stage (chronic) N18.6
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