ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M80-M85 › M84.47 Pathological fracture, ankle, foot and toes › M84.475

M84.475

Pathological fracture, left foot

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:

  • M84.475A Pathological fracture, left foot, initial encounter for fracture
  • M84.475D Pathological fracture, left foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
  • M84.475G Pathological fracture, left foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
  • M84.475K Pathological fracture, left foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with nonunion
  • M84.475P Pathological fracture, left foot, subsequent encounter for fracture with malunion
  • M84.475S Pathological fracture, left foot, 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, left foot

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
M84.471 Pathological fracture, right ankle Not billable
M84.472 Pathological fracture, left ankle Not billable
M84.473 Pathological fracture, unspecified ankle Not billable
M84.474 Pathological fracture, right foot Not billable
M84.476 Pathological fracture, unspecified foot Not billable
M84.477 Pathological fracture, right toe(s) Not billable
M84.478 Pathological fracture, left toe(s) Not billable
M84.479 Pathological fracture, unspecified toe(s) Not billable