Systemic disorders of connective tissue in diseases classified elsewhere

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 6 more specific codes instead:

M36.0 Dermato(poly)myositis in neoplastic disease
M36.1 Arthropathy in neoplastic disease
M36.2 Hemophilic arthropathy
M36.3 Arthropathy in other blood disorders
M36.4 Arthropathy in hypersensitivity reactions classified elsewhere
M36.8 Systemic disorders of connective tissue in other diseases classified elsewhere

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 Systemic disorders of connective tissue in diseases classified elsewhere

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.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

arthropathies in diseases classified elsewhere (M14.-)

Inherited from the M30-M36 section Systemic connective tissue disorders (M30-M36)

Excludes1 - never coded here

autoimmune disease, single organ or single cell-type -code to relevant condition category

Includes

autoimmune disease NOS
collagen (vascular) disease NOS
systemic autoimmune disease
systemic collagen (vascular) disease