ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.31 Stress fracture, shoulder › M84.319

M84.319

Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder

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 6 more specific codes instead:

  • M84.319A Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.319D Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.319G Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.319K Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.319P Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.319S Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder, sequela

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.

  1. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Stress fracture, unspecified shoulder

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 M84 Disorder of continuity of bone

Excludes2 - not included here

  • traumatic fracture of bone-see fracture, by site

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M84.311 Stress fracture, right shoulder Not billable
M84.312 Stress fracture, left shoulder Not billable