Soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure

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 10 more specific codes instead:

M70.0 Crepitant synovitis (acute) (chronic) of hand and wrist (also a header)
M70.1 Bursitis of hand (also a header)
M70.2 Olecranon bursitis (also a header)
M70.3 Other bursitis of elbow (also a header)
M70.4 Prepatellar bursitis (also a header)
M70.5 Other bursitis of knee (also a header)
M70.6 Trochanteric bursitis (also a header)
M70.7 Other bursitis of hip (also a header)
M70.8 Other soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure (also a header)
M70.9 Unspecified soft tissue disorder related to use, overuse and pressure (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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

bursitis NOS (M71.9-)

Excludes2 - not included here

bursitis of shoulder (M75.5)
enthesopathies (M76-M77)
pressure ulcer (pressure area) (L89.-)

Use additional code

external cause code to identify activity causing disorder (Y93.-)

Includes

soft tissue disorders of occupational origin