ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M60-M63 › M62 Other disorders of muscle › M62.3
Immobility syndrome (paraplegic)
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Immobility syndrome (paraplegic)
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 M62 Other disorders of muscle
Excludes1 - never coded here
- alcoholic myopathy (G72.1)
- cramp and spasm (R25.2)
- drug-induced myopathy (G72.0)
- myalgia (M79.1-)
- stiff-man syndrome (G25.82)
Excludes2 - not included here
- nontraumatic hematoma of muscle (M79.81)
Inherited from the M60-M63 section Disorders of muscles (M60-M63)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
- myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-)
- myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0)
- myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32)
- myopathy in scleroderma (M34.-)
- myopathy in Sjögren's syndrome (M35.03)
- myopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-)
Excludes2 - not included here
- muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72)
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.
- Syndrome > lazy > posture
- Immobile, immobility > syndrome
- Syndrome > immobility, immobilization
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M62.0 | Separation of muscle (nontraumatic) | Not billable |
| M62.1 | Other rupture of muscle (nontraumatic) | Not billable |
| M62.2 | Nontraumatic ischemic infarction of muscle | Not billable |
| M62.4 | Contracture of muscle | Not billable |
| M62.5 | Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| M62.8 | Other specified disorders of muscle | Not billable |
| M62.9 | Disorder of muscle, unspecified | Valid |