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M94

Other disorders of cartilage

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 6 more specific codes instead:

  • M94.0 Chondrocostal junction syndrome [Tietze]
  • M94.1 Relapsing polychondritis
  • M94.2 Chondromalacia (also a header)
  • M94.3 Chondrolysis (also a header)
  • M94.8 Other specified disorders of cartilage (also a header)
  • M94.9 Disorder of cartilage, unspecified

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 Other disorders of cartilage

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.-)