ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M05-M14 › M12 Other and unspecified arthropathy › M12.8

M12.8

Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • M12.80 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, unspecified site
  • M12.81 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, shoulder (also a header)
  • M12.82 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, elbow (also a header)
  • M12.83 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, wrist (also a header)
  • M12.84 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, hand (also a header)
  • M12.85 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, hip (also a header)
  • M12.86 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, knee (also a header)
  • M12.87 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, ankle and foot (also a header)
  • M12.88 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, other specified site
  • M12.89 Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified, 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other specific arthropathies, not elsewhere classified

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

CodeDescriptionStatus
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
M12.4 Intermittent hydrarthrosis Not billable
M12.5 Traumatic arthropathy Not billable
M12.9 Arthropathy, unspecified Valid