ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.44 Pathological fracture, hand and fingers › M84.442
Pathological fracture, left hand
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:
- M84.442A Pathological fracture, left hand, initial encounter for fracture
- M84.442D Pathological fracture, left hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- M84.442G Pathological fracture, left hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
- M84.442K Pathological fracture, left hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
- M84.442P Pathological fracture, left hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
- M84.442S Pathological fracture, left hand, 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 Pathological fracture, left hand
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.
- Injury > hand > fracture
- Injury > finger > fracture
- Fracture, traumatic > hand > finger
- Fracture, traumatic > phalanx > hand
- Fracture, pathological > carpus
- Fracture, pathological > finger
- Fracture, pathological > metacarpus
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M84.441 | Pathological fracture, right hand | Not billable |
| M84.443 | Pathological fracture, unspecified hand | Not billable |
| M84.444 | Pathological fracture, right finger(s) | Not billable |
| M84.445 | Pathological fracture, left finger(s) | Not billable |
| M84.446 | Pathological fracture, unspecified finger(s) | Not billable |