ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M91-M94 › M92 Other juvenile osteochondrosis › M92.6

M92.6

Juvenile osteochondrosis of tarsus

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:

  • M92.60 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tarsus, unspecified ankle
  • M92.61 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tarsus, right ankle
  • M92.62 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tarsus, left ankle

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 tarsus

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
M92.0 Juvenile osteochondrosis of humerus Not billable
M92.1 Juvenile osteochondrosis of radius and ulna Not billable
M92.2 Juvenile osteochondrosis, hand Not billable
M92.3 Other juvenile osteochondrosis, upper limb Not billable
M92.4 Juvenile osteochondrosis of patella Not billable
M92.5 Juvenile osteochondrosis of tibia and fibula Not billable
M92.7 Juvenile osteochondrosis of metatarsus Not billable
M92.8 Other specified juvenile osteochondrosis Valid
M92.9 Juvenile osteochondrosis, unspecified Valid