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M89.26

Other disorders of bone development and growth, tibia and fibula

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 5 more specific codes instead:

  • M89.261 Other disorders of bone development and growth, right tibia
  • M89.262 Other disorders of bone development and growth, left tibia
  • M89.263 Other disorders of bone development and growth, right fibula
  • M89.264 Other disorders of bone development and growth, left fibula
  • M89.269 Other disorders of bone development and growth, unspecified lower leg

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other disorders of bone development and growth, tibia and fibula

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 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
M89.20 Other disorders of bone development and growth, unspecified site Valid
M89.21 Other disorders of bone development and growth, shoulder Not billable
M89.22 Other disorders of bone development and growth, humerus Not billable
M89.23 Other disorders of bone development and growth, ulna and radius Not billable
M89.24 Other disorders of bone development and growth, hand Not billable
M89.25 Other disorders of bone development and growth, femur Not billable
M89.27 Other disorders of bone development and growth, ankle and foot Not billable
M89.28 Other disorders of bone development and growth, other site Valid
M89.29 Other disorders of bone development and growth, multiple sites Valid