ICD-10-CM › V00-Y99 › X50 › X50 Overexertion and strenuous or... › X50.0

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, FY2017 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

• X50.0XXA Overexertion from strenuous movement or load, initial encounter
• X50.0XXD Overexertion from strenuous movement or load, subsequent encounter
• X50.0XXS Overexertion from strenuous movement or load, sequela

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

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 X50 Overexertion and strenuous or repetitive movements

Seventh character required

• The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category X50

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.

• Lifting
• Pulling, excessive
• Strenuous movements
• Straining, excessive
• Exhaustion > due to excessive exertion
• Lifting > weights
• Lifting > heavy objects
• Overexertion > from > strenuous movement or load

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
X50.1	Overexertion from prolonged static or awkward postures	Not billable
X50.3	Overexertion from repetitive movements	Not billable
X50.9	Other and unspecified overexertion or strenuous movements or postures	Not billable