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M92.52

Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle

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:

  • M92.521 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle, right leg
  • M92.522 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle, left leg
  • M92.523 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle, bilateral
  • M92.529 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle, unspecified leg

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, left leg
  2. FY2021 Description revised Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula, left leg Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia tubercle
  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
M92.50 Unspecified juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula Not billable
M92.51 Juvenile osteochondrosis of proximal tibia Not billable
M92.59 Other juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula Not billable