ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M86-M90 › M86.8X Other osteomyelitis › M86.8X0

M86.8X0

Other osteomyelitis, multiple sites

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 Other osteomyelitis, multiple sites

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 M86 Osteomyelitis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • osteomyelitis due to:
  • echinococcus (B67.2)
  • gonococcus (A54.43)
  • salmonella (A02.24)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • ostemyelitis of:
  • orbit (H05.0-)
  • petrous bone (H70.2-)
  • vertebra (M46.2-)

Use additional code

  • code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent
  • code to identify major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-)

Inherited from the M86-M90 section Other osteopathies (M86-M90)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • postprocedural osteopathies (M96.-)

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
M86.8X1 Other osteomyelitis, shoulder Not billable
M86.8X2 Other osteomyelitis, upper arm Not billable
M86.8X3 Other osteomyelitis, forearm Not billable
M86.8X4 Other osteomyelitis, hand Not billable
M86.8X5 Other osteomyelitis, thigh Not billable
M86.8X6 Other osteomyelitis, lower leg Not billable
M86.8X7 Other osteomyelitis, ankle and foot Not billable
M86.8X8 Other osteomyelitis, other site Not billable
M86.8X9 Other osteomyelitis, unspecified sites Valid