ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M86-M90 › M89.7 Major osseous defect › M89.79

M89.79

Major osseous defect, 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 Major osseous defect, 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 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
M89.70 Major osseous defect, unspecified site Valid
M89.71 Major osseous defect, shoulder region Not billable
M89.72 Major osseous defect, humerus Not billable
M89.73 Major osseous defect, forearm Not billable
M89.74 Major osseous defect, hand Not billable
M89.75 Major osseous defect, pelvic region and thigh Not billable
M89.76 Major osseous defect, lower leg Not billable
M89.77 Major osseous defect, ankle and foot Not billable
M89.78 Major osseous defect, other site Valid