ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.35 Stress fracture, pelvis and femur › M84.352

M84.352

Stress fracture, left femur

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:

  • M84.352A Stress fracture, left femur, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.352D Stress fracture, left femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.352G Stress fracture, left femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.352K Stress fracture, left femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.352P Stress fracture, left femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.352S Stress fracture, left femur, 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 femur

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
M84.350 Stress fracture, pelvis Not billable
M84.351 Stress fracture, right femur Not billable
M84.353 Stress fracture, unspecified femur Not billable
M84.359 Stress fracture, hip, unspecified Not billable