ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M70-M79 › M79 Other and unspecified soft tissue... › M79.5
Residual foreign body in soft tissue
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 Residual foreign body in soft tissue
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 M79 Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified
Excludes1 - never coded here
- psychogenic rheumatism (F45.8)
- soft tissue pain, psychogenic (F45.41)
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.
- Emesis
- Retained
- Retching
- Granuloma > talc
- Regurgitation > food
- Foreign body > granuloma
- Retention > foreign body
- Reaction > foreign > body NEC
- Foreign body > lacrimal punctum
- Aspiration > syndrome of newborn
- Foreign body > retained > muscle
- Regurgitation > gastric contents
- Myositis > foreign body granuloma
- Pneumonia > neonatal > aspiration
- Syndrome > aspiration, of newborn
- Asphyxia, asphyxiation > inhalation
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > eyeball
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > lacrimal apparatus
- Foreign body > entering through orifice > tear ducts or glands
- Foreign body > in > soft tissue
- Foreign body > retained > soft tissue
- Foreign body > old or residual > soft tissue
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M79.0 | Rheumatism, unspecified | Valid |
| M79.1 | Myalgia | Not billable |
| M79.2 | Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecified | Valid |
| M79.3 | Panniculitis, unspecified | Valid |
| M79.4 | Hypertrophy of (infrapatellar) fat pad | Valid |
| M79.6 | Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes | Not billable |
| M79.7 | Fibromyalgia | Valid |
| M79.8 | Other specified soft tissue disorders | Not billable |
| M79.9 | Soft tissue disorder, unspecified | Valid |
| M79.A | Nontraumatic compartment syndrome | Not billable |