ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.34 Stress fracture, hand and fingers › M84.344

M84.344

Stress fracture, right finger(s)

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:

  • M84.344A Stress fracture, right finger(s), initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.344D Stress fracture, right finger(s), subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.344G Stress fracture, right finger(s), subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.344K Stress fracture, right finger(s), subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.344P Stress fracture, right finger(s), subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.344S Stress fracture, right finger(s), 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, right finger(s)

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
M84.341 Stress fracture, right hand Not billable
M84.342 Stress fracture, left hand Not billable
M84.343 Stress fracture, unspecified hand Not billable
M84.345 Stress fracture, left finger(s) Not billable
M84.346 Stress fracture, unspecified finger(s) Not billable