ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M91-M94 › M94.8 Other specified disorders of cartilage › M94.8X

M94.8X

Other specified 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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • M94.8X0 Other specified disorders of cartilage, multiple sites
  • M94.8X1 Other specified disorders of cartilage, shoulder
  • M94.8X2 Other specified disorders of cartilage, upper arm
  • M94.8X3 Other specified disorders of cartilage, forearm
  • M94.8X4 Other specified disorders of cartilage, hand
  • M94.8X5 Other specified disorders of cartilage, thigh
  • M94.8X6 Other specified disorders of cartilage, lower leg
  • M94.8X7 Other specified disorders of cartilage, ankle and foot
  • M94.8X8 Other specified disorders of cartilage, other site
  • M94.8X9 Other specified disorders of cartilage, unspecified sites

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 specified 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.-)

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.