ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M86-M90 › M86.8X Other osteomyelitis › M86.8X7

M86.8X7

Other osteomyelitis, ankle and 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.

Billable FY2016 to FY2026, and a category header from FY2027.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

  • M86.8X71 Other osteomyelitis, right ankle and foot
  • M86.8X72 Other osteomyelitis, left ankle and foot
  • M86.8X79 Other osteomyelitis, unspecified ankle and foot

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, ankle and foot
  2. FY2027 Stopped being billable

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
M86.8X0 Other osteomyelitis, multiple sites Valid
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
M86.8X8 Other osteomyelitis, other site Not billable
M86.8X9 Other osteomyelitis, unspecified sites Valid