Nontraumatic compartment syndrome

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 4 more specific codes instead:

M79.A1 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of upper extremity (also a header)
M79.A2 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of lower extremity (also a header)
M79.A3 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of abdomen
M79.A9 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome of other 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 Nontraumatic compartment syndrome

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)

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
M79.5	Residual foreign body in soft tissue	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