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M91

Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • M91.0 Juvenile osteochondrosis of pelvis
  • M91.1 Juvenile osteochondrosis of head of femur [Legg-Calve-Perthes] (also a header)
  • M91.2 Coxa plana (also a header)
  • M91.3 Pseudocoxalgia (also a header)
  • M91.4 Coxa magna (also a header)
  • M91.8 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis (also a header)
  • M91.9 Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis, unspecified (also a header)

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 Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis

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.

This code

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic) (M93.0-)

Inherited from the M91-M94 section Chondropathies (M91-M94)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • postprocedural chondropathies (M96.-)