ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M91-M94 › M93.26 Osteochondritis dissecans knee › M93.269

M93.269

Osteochondritis dissecans, unspecified knee

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Osteochondritis dissecans, unspecified knee

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 M93 Other osteochondropathies

Excludes2 - not included here

  • osteochondrosis of spine (M42.-)

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
M93.261 Osteochondritis dissecans, right knee Valid
M93.262 Osteochondritis dissecans, left knee Valid