Appendix B.
1 Codes used to identify AKI, for identifying cases.
| Secondary diagnosis codes | |
| 5845 | Renal failure with (acute) tubular necrosis |
| 5846 | With lesion of renal cortical necrosis |
| 5847 | With lesion of renal medullary (papillary) necrosis |
| 5848 | With other specified pathological lesion in kidney |
| 5849 | Acute renal failure, unspecified |
| 7885 | Oliguria and anuria |
| 7925 | Cloudy dialysis effluent |
| 99668 | Infection and inflammatory reaction due to peritoneal dialysis catheter (exit site infection or inflammation) |
| 99673 | Other complications due to renal dialysis device, implant, and graft |
| V451 | Renal dialysis status |
| V56 | Encounter for dialysis and dialysis catheter care |
| V560 | Encounter for extracorporeal dialysis |
| V561 | Fitting and adjustment of extracorporeal dialysis |
| V562 | Fitting and adjustment of peritoneal dialysis catheter |
| V563 | Encounter for adequacy testing for dialysis |
| V5631 | Encounter for adequacy testing for hemodialysis |
| V5632 | Encounter for adequacy testing for peritoneal dialysis |
| V568 | Encounter other dialysis |
| E8702 | Accidental cut, puncture, perforation or hemorrhage during kidney dialysis or other perfusion |
| E8712 | Foreign object left in body during kidney dialysis or other perfusion |
| E8722 | Failure of sterile precautions during kidney dialysis or other perfusion |
| E8742 | Mechanical failure of instrument or apparatus during kidney dialysis and other perfusion |
| E8791 | Kidney dialysis as the cause of abnormal reaction of patient, or of later complication, without mention of misadventure at time of procedure |
| Secondary Procedure Codes | |
| 3895 | Ven cath renal dialysis |
| 3927 | Dialysis arteriovenostom |
| 3995 | Hemodialysis |
| 5493 | Creation of cutaneoperitoneal fistula |
| 5498 | Peritoneal dialysis |
| CPT Codes | |
| 90935 | Hemodialysis procedure with single physician evaluation |
| 90937 | Hemodialysis procedure requiring repeated evaluation(s) with or without substantial revision of dialysis prescription |
| 90945 | Dialysis procedure other than hemodialysis with single physician evaluation |
| 90947 | Dialysis procedure other than hemodialysis requiring repeated physician evaluations, with or without substantial revision of dialysis prescription |
| 90997 | Hemoperfusion |
| 90970 | ESRD related services for dialysis less than a full month of service, per day; for patients 20 years of age or older |
| 90999 | Unlisted dialysis procedure, inpatient or outpatient |
| 4054F | Hemodialysis via catheter (ESRD) |
| 4055F | Patient receiving peritoneal dialysis (ESRD) |
1
Silber JH, Romano PS, Rosen AK, et al. Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care. Med Care 2007; 45(10):918–25.