Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage of limbs

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:

C40.0 Malignant neoplasm of scapula and long bones of upper limb (also a header)
C40.1 Malignant neoplasm of short bones of upper limb (also a header)
C40.2 Malignant neoplasm of long bones of lower limb (also a header)
C40.3 Malignant neoplasm of short bones of lower limb (also a header)
C40.8 Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of bone and articular cartilage of limb (also a header)
C40.9 Malignant neoplasm of unspecified bones and articular cartilage of limb (also a header)

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage of limbs

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Use additional code

code to identify major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-)

Inherited from the C40-C41 section Malignant neoplasms of bone and articular cartilage (C40-C41)

Excludes1 - never coded here

malignant neoplasm of bone marrow NOS (C96.9)
malignant neoplasm of synovia (C49.-)

Includes

malignant neoplasm of cartilage (articular) (joint)
malignant neoplasm of periosteum