ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.471 Pathological fracture, right ankle › M84.471P

M84.471P

Pathological fracture, right ankle, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Pathological fracture, right ankle, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion

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
M84.471A Pathological fracture, right ankle, initial encounter for fracture Valid
M84.471D Pathological fracture, right ankle, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing Valid
M84.471G Pathological fracture, right ankle, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing Valid
M84.471K Pathological fracture, right ankle, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion Valid
M84.471S Pathological fracture, right ankle, sequela Valid