ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M26-M27 › M26.6 Temporomandibular joint disorders › M26.61
Adhesions and ankylosis of temporomandibular joint
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 4 more specific codes instead:
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Adhesions and ankylosis of temporomandibular joint
- FY2017 Stopped being billable
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 M26-M27 section Dentofacial anomalies [including malocclusion] and other disorders of jaw (M26-M27)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- hemifacial atrophy or hypertrophy (Q67.4)
- unilateral condylar hyperplasia or hypoplasia (M27.8)
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.
- Cleft
- Extra
- Fused
- Patent
- Trifid
- Triple
- Window
- Aplasia
- Aberrant
- Patulous
- Abnormity
- Asymmetry
- Dysplasia
- Additional
- Lobulation
- Nonclosure
- Nondescent
- Fold, folds
- Rudimentary
- Undescended
- Malformation
- Triplication
- Transposition
- Birth > defect
- Change > joint
- Maldevelopment
- Mushrooming hip
- Septum, septate
- Union, abnormal
- Fixation > joint
- Change > hip joint
- Imperfect > fusion
- Vestige, vestigial
- Bony block of joint
- Duplication, duplex
- Lesion > congenital
- Pervious, congenital
- Arthrofibrosis, joint
- Elongated, elongation
- Fusion, fused > joint
Showing 40 of 120 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M26.60 | Temporomandibular joint disorder, unspecified | Not billable |
| M26.62 | Arthralgia of temporomandibular joint | Not billable |
| M26.63 | Articular disc disorder of temporomandibular joint | Not billable |
| M26.64 | Arthritis of temporomandibular joint | Not billable |
| M26.65 | Arthropathy of temporomandibular joint | Not billable |
| M26.69 | Other specified disorders of temporomandibular joint | Valid |