ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M15-M19 › M19.07 Primary osteoarthritis ankle and foot › M19.079

M19.079

Primary osteoarthritis, unspecified ankle and foot

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 Primary osteoarthritis, unspecified ankle and foot

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 M19 Other and unspecified osteoarthritis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • polyarthritis (M15.-)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • arthrosis of spine (M47.-)
  • hallux rigidus (M20.2)
  • 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
M19.071 Primary osteoarthritis, right ankle and foot Valid
M19.072 Primary osteoarthritis, left ankle and foot Valid