ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M65-M67 › M66.84 Spontaneous rupture of other tendons, hand › M66.849
Spontaneous rupture of other tendons, unspecified hand
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 Spontaneous rupture of other tendons, unspecified hand
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 M66 Spontaneous rupture of synovium and tendon
Excludes2 - not included here
- rotator cuff syndrome (M75.1-)
- rupture where an abnormal force is applied to normal tissue - see injury of tendon by body region
Includes
- rupture that occurs when a normal force is applied to tissues that are inferred to have less than normal strength
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.
- Sloughing > tendon
- Slipped, slipping > tendon
- Disorder > tendon > rupture
- Disease, diseased > tendon, tendinous
- Rupture, ruptured > musculotendinous junction NEC, nontraumatic
- Rupture, ruptured > tendon > nontraumatic > hand
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M66.841 | Spontaneous rupture of other tendons, right hand | Valid |
| M66.842 | Spontaneous rupture of other tendons, left hand | Valid |