ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M86-M90 › M86.8X5 Other osteomyelitis, thigh › M86.8X59

M86.8X59

Other osteomyelitis, unspecified thigh

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2027 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2027 to now.

  1. FY2027 Added to the code set Other osteomyelitis, unspecified thigh

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
M86.8X51 Other osteomyelitis, right thigh Valid
M86.8X52 Other osteomyelitis, left thigh Valid