ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M12 Other and unspecified arthropathy › M12.4
M12.4
Intermittent hydrarthrosis
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:
- M12.40 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, unspecified site
- M12.41 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, shoulder (also a header)
- M12.42 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, elbow (also a header)
- M12.43 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, wrist (also a header)
- M12.44 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, hand (also a header)
- M12.45 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, hip (also a header)
- M12.46 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, knee (also a header)
- M12.47 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, ankle and foot (also a header)
- M12.48 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, other site
- M12.49 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, multiple sites
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 Intermittent hydrarthrosis
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.
Inherited from M12 Other and unspecified arthropathy
Excludes1 - never coded here
- arthrosis (M15-M19)
- cricoarytenoid arthropathy (J38.7)
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M12.0 | Chronic postrheumatic arthropathy [Jaccoud] | Not billable |
| M12.1 | Kaschin-Beck disease | Not billable |
| M12.2 | Villonodular synovitis (pigmented) | Not billable |
| M12.3 | Palindromic rheumatism | Not billable |
| M12.5 | Traumatic arthropathy | Not billable |
| M12.8 | Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| M12.9 | Arthropathy, unspecified | Valid |