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M17.2

Bilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Bilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee

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 the M15-M19 section Osteoarthritis (M15-M19)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • osteoarthritis of spine (M47.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M17.0 Bilateral primary osteoarthritis of knee Valid
M17.1 Unilateral primary osteoarthritis of knee Not billable
M17.3 Unilateral post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee Not billable
M17.4 Other bilateral secondary osteoarthritis of knee Valid
M17.5 Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of knee Valid
M17.9 Osteoarthritis of knee, unspecified Valid