ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.43 Pathological fracture, ulna and radius › M84.433

M84.433

Pathological fracture, right 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:

  • M84.433A Pathological fracture, right radius, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.433D Pathological fracture, right radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.433G Pathological fracture, right radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.433K Pathological fracture, right radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.433P Pathological fracture, right radius, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.433S Pathological fracture, right 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 Pathological fracture, right 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
M84.431 Pathological fracture, right ulna Not billable
M84.432 Pathological fracture, left ulna Not billable
M84.434 Pathological fracture, left radius Not billable
M84.439 Pathological fracture, unspecified ulna and radius Not billable