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M92.50

Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis of 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.

Billable FY2016 to FY2020, and a category header from FY2021.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • M92.501 Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis, right leg
  • M92.502 Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis, left leg
  • M92.503 Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis, bilateral leg
  • M92.509 Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis, unspecified leg

Use instead:

  • M92.591 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, right leg stated for FY2020
  • M92.592 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, left leg stated for FY2020
  • M92.593 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, bilateral stated for FY2020
  • M92.599 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, unspecified leg stated for FY2020

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 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, unspecified leg
  2. FY2021 Description revised Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, unspecified leg Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula
  3. FY2021 Stopped being billable

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 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
M92.51 Juvenile osteochondrosis of proximal tibia Not billable
M92.52 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle Not billable
M92.59 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula Not billable