Other specified disorders of cartilage, forearm

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified disorders of cartilage, forearm

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.

Polychondritis
Abscess > cartilage
Erosion > cartilage
Ossification > cartilage
Atrophy, atrophic > cartilage
Disease, diseased > cartilage
Loss > substance of > cartilage
Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > cartilage
Infection, infected, infective > cartilage
Chondritis > purulent
Disorder > cartilage > specified type NEC

Codes in the same group

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