ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M91-M94 › M91 Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis › M91.2

M91.2

Coxa plana

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 3 more specific codes instead:

  • M91.20 Coxa plana, unspecified hip
  • M91.21 Coxa plana, right hip
  • M91.22 Coxa plana, left hip

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 Coxa plana

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 M91 Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis

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.-)

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
M91.0 Juvenile osteochondrosis of pelvis Valid
M91.1 Juvenile osteochondrosis of head of femur [Legg-Calve-Perthes] Not billable
M91.3 Pseudocoxalgia Not billable
M91.4 Coxa magna Not billable
M91.8 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis Not billable
M91.9 Juvenile osteochondrosis of hip and pelvis, unspecified Not billable