Pyogenic arthritis

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 5 more specific codes instead:

M00.0 Staphylococcal arthritis and polyarthritis (also a header)
M00.1 Pneumococcal arthritis and polyarthritis (also a header)
M00.2 Other streptococcal arthritis and polyarthritis (also a header)
M00.8 Arthritis and polyarthritis due to other bacteria (also a header)
M00.9 Pyogenic arthritis, unspecified

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 Pyogenic arthritis

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

Excludes2 - not included here

infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal joint prosthesis (T84.5-)

Inherited from the M00-M02 section Infectious arthropathies (M00-M02)

Note

This block comprises arthropathies due to microbiological agents. Distinction is made between the following types of etiological relationship:
a) direct infection of joint, where organisms invade synovial tissue and microbial antigen is present in the joint;
b) indirect infection, which may be of two types: a reactive arthropathy, where microbial infection of the body is established but neither organisms nor antigens can be identified in the joint, and a postinfective arthropathy, where microbial antigen is present but recovery of an organism is inconstant and evidence of local multiplication is lacking.