ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.33 Stress fracture, ulna and radius › M84.339

M84.339

Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius

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:

  • M84.339A Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.339D Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.339G Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.339K Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.339P Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.339S Stress fracture, unspecified ulna and radius, 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 ulna and radius

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
M84.332 Stress fracture, left ulna Not billable
M84.333 Stress fracture, right radius Not billable
M84.334 Stress fracture, left radius Not billable