ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.461 Pathological fracture, right tibia › M84.461A
Pathological fracture, right tibia, initial encounter for fracture
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Pathological fracture, right tibia, initial encounter for fracture
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.
- Broken > leg
- Injury > leg > fracture
- Fracture, traumatic > leg > tibia
- Fracture, traumatic > leg > fibula
- Fracture, pathological > tibia
- Fracture, pathological > fibula
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M84.461D | Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing | Valid |
| M84.461G | Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing | Valid |
| M84.461K | Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion | Valid |
| M84.461P | Pathological fracture, right tibia, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion | Valid |
| M84.461S | Pathological fracture, right tibia, sequela | Valid |