ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.46 Pathological fracture, tibia and fibula › M84.461

M84.461

Pathological fracture, right tibia

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:

  • M84.461A Pathological fracture, right tibia, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.461D Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.461G Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.461K Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.461P Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.461S Pathological fracture, right tibia, 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 tibia

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
M84.462 Pathological fracture, left tibia Not billable
M84.463 Pathological fracture, right fibula Not billable
M84.464 Pathological fracture, left fibula Not billable
M84.469 Pathological fracture, unspecified tibia and fibula Not billable