ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M60-M63 › M62 Other disorders of muscle › M62.5

M62.5

Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified

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 11 more specific codes instead:

  • M62.50 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, unspecified site
  • M62.51 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, shoulder (also a header)
  • M62.52 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, upper arm (also a header)
  • M62.53 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, forearm (also a header)
  • M62.54 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, hand (also a header)
  • M62.55 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, thigh (also a header)
  • M62.56 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, lower leg (also a header)
  • M62.57 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, ankle and foot (also a header)
  • M62.58 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, other site
  • M62.59 Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, multiple sites
  • M62.5A Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, back (also a header)

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified

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)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
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
M62.3 Immobility syndrome (paraplegic) Valid
M62.4 Contracture of muscle Not billable
M62.8 Other specified disorders of muscle Not billable
M62.9 Disorder of muscle, unspecified Valid