ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.4 Pathological fracture, not... › M84.47
Pathological fracture, ankle, foot and toes
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 9 more specific codes instead:
- M84.471 Pathological fracture, right ankle (also a header)
- M84.472 Pathological fracture, left ankle (also a header)
- M84.473 Pathological fracture, unspecified ankle (also a header)
- M84.474 Pathological fracture, right foot (also a header)
- M84.475 Pathological fracture, left foot (also a header)
- M84.476 Pathological fracture, unspecified foot (also a header)
- M84.477 Pathological fracture, right toe(s) (also a header)
- M84.478 Pathological fracture, left toe(s) (also a header)
- M84.479 Pathological fracture, unspecified toe(s) (also a header)
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Pathological fracture, ankle, foot and toes
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
- Injury > toe > fracture
- Injury > foot > fracture
- Injury > ankle > fracture
- Fracture, traumatic > instep
- Fracture, traumatic > malleolus
- Fracture, traumatic > foot > toe
- Fracture, traumatic > Dupuytren's
- Fracture, traumatic > leg > ankle
- Fracture, traumatic > phalanx > foot
- Fracture, traumatic > leg > malleolus
- Fracture, pathological > toe
- Fracture, pathological > ankle
- Fracture, pathological > tarsus
- Fracture, pathological > metatarsus
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M84.40 | Pathological fracture, unspecified site | Not billable |
| M84.41 | Pathological fracture, shoulder | Not billable |
| M84.42 | Pathological fracture, humerus | Not billable |
| M84.43 | Pathological fracture, ulna and radius | Not billable |
| M84.44 | Pathological fracture, hand and fingers | Not billable |
| M84.45 | Pathological fracture, femur and pelvis | Not billable |
| M84.46 | Pathological fracture, tibia and fibula | Not billable |
| M84.48 | Pathological fracture, other site | Not billable |