ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M86-M90 › M89.8 Other specified disorders of bone › M89.8X

M89.8X

Other specified disorders of bone

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • M89.8X0 Other specified disorders of bone, multiple sites
  • M89.8X1 Other specified disorders of bone, shoulder
  • M89.8X2 Other specified disorders of bone, upper arm
  • M89.8X3 Other specified disorders of bone, forearm
  • M89.8X4 Other specified disorders of bone, hand
  • M89.8X5 Other specified disorders of bone, thigh
  • M89.8X6 Other specified disorders of bone, lower leg
  • M89.8X7 Other specified disorders of bone, ankle and foot
  • M89.8X8 Other specified disorders of bone, other site
  • M89.8X9 Other specified disorders of bone, unspecified site

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 specified disorders of bone

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.