ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.33 Stress fracture, ulna and radius › M84.332

M84.332

Stress fracture, left ulna

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:

  • M84.332A Stress fracture, left ulna, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.332D Stress fracture, left ulna, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.332G Stress fracture, left ulna, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.332K Stress fracture, left ulna, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.332P Stress fracture, left ulna, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.332S Stress fracture, left ulna, 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, left ulna

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
M84.331 Stress fracture, right ulna Not billable
M84.333 Stress fracture, right radius Not billable
M84.334 Stress fracture, left radius Not billable
M84.339 Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius Not billable