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M12

Other and unspecified arthropathy

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 8 more specific codes instead:

  • M12.0 Chronic postrheumatic arthropathy [Jaccoud] (also a header)
  • M12.1 Kaschin-Beck disease (also a header)
  • M12.2 Villonodular synovitis (pigmented) (also a header)
  • M12.3 Palindromic rheumatism (also a header)
  • M12.4 Intermittent hydrarthrosis (also a header)
  • M12.5 Traumatic arthropathy (also a header)
  • M12.8 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified (also a header)
  • M12.9 Arthropathy, 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other and unspecified arthropathy

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

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • arthrosis (M15-M19)
  • cricoarytenoid arthropathy (J38.7)