ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M65-M67 › M67 Other disorders of synovium and tendon › M67.3
Transient synovitis
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:
- M67.30 Transient synovitis, unspecified site
- M67.31 Transient synovitis, shoulder (also a header)
- M67.32 Transient synovitis, elbow (also a header)
- M67.33 Transient synovitis, wrist (also a header)
- M67.34 Transient synovitis, hand (also a header)
- M67.35 Transient synovitis, hip (also a header)
- M67.36 Transient synovitis, knee (also a header)
- M67.37 Transient synovitis, ankle and foot (also a header)
- M67.38 Transient synovitis, other site
- M67.39 Transient synovitis, multiple sites
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 Transient synovitis
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 M67 Other disorders of synovium and tendon
Excludes1 - never coded here
- palmar fascial fibromatosis [Dupuytren] (M72.0)
- tendinitis NOS (M77.9-)
- xanthomatosis localized to tendons (E78.2)
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.
- Synovitis
- Tenonitis
- Tenosynovitis
- Tenovaginitis
- Tendosynovitis
- Tenontothecitis
- Tenontosynovitis
- Synovitis > toxic
- Sloughing > tendon
- Slipped, slipping > tendon
- Disease, diseased > synovium
- Disorder > tendon > synovitis
- Disorder > synovium > synovitis
- Disorder > tendon > tenosynovitis
- Disease, diseased > tendon, tendinous
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > synovial
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > tendon NEC
- Synovitis > transient
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M67.0 | Short Achilles tendon (acquired) | Not billable |
| M67.2 | Synovial hypertrophy, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| M67.4 | Ganglion | Not billable |
| M67.5 | Plica syndrome | Not billable |
| M67.8 | Other specified disorders of synovium and tendon | Not billable |
| M67.9 | Unspecified disorder of synovium and tendon | Not billable |
| M67.A | Plantar fasciitis | Not billable |