Sarcopenia

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Sarcopenia

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.

Sarcopenia

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
M62.81	Muscle weakness (generalized)	Valid
M62.82	Rhabdomyolysis	Valid
M62.83	Muscle spasm	Not billable
M62.85	Dysfunction of the multifidus muscles, lumbar region	Valid
M62.89	Other specified disorders of muscle	Valid