ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.474 Pathological fracture, right foot › M84.474K

M84.474K

Pathological fracture, right foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion

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 foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion

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
M84.474A Pathological fracture, right foot, initial encounter for fracture Valid
M84.474D Pathological fracture, right foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing Valid
M84.474G Pathological fracture, right foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing Valid
M84.474P Pathological fracture, right foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion Valid
M84.474S Pathological fracture, right foot, sequela Valid