ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.35 Stress fracture, pelvis and femur › M84.353
Stress fracture, unspecified 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.
Submit one of these 6 more specific codes instead:
- M84.353A Stress fracture, unspecified femur, initial encounter for fracture
- M84.353D Stress fracture, unspecified femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- M84.353G Stress fracture, unspecified femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
- M84.353K Stress fracture, unspecified femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
- M84.353P Stress fracture, unspecified femur, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
- M84.353S Stress fracture, unspecified 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Stress fracture, unspecified 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.
- March > fracture
- Fracture, traumatic > march
- Fracture, traumatic > fatigue
- Fracture, traumatic > stress > hip
- Fracture, traumatic > stress > femur
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M84.350 | Stress fracture, pelvis | Not billable |
| M84.351 | Stress fracture, right femur | Not billable |
| M84.352 | Stress fracture, left femur | Not billable |
| M84.359 | Stress fracture, hip, unspecified | Not billable |