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Category · FY2027

M81 Osteoporosis without current pathological fracture

  • Header · not billable

M81 is not billable. The category heads 3 billable codes in FY2027: the 3 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Osteoporosis (female) (male) → M81.0
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)disuse → M81.8
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)Lequesne → M81.6

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 13 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
  2. M80-M85 Disorders of bone density and structure (M80-M85)
  3. M81 Osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
Billable codes
3
Subdivisions
3
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
7

Codes in M81

  1. M81.0
    Age-related osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 4

    Inclusion terms

    • Involutional osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Osteoporosis NOS
    • Postmenopausal osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Senile osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  2. M81.6
    Localized osteoporosis [Lequesne]
    Billable
    Excludes1 1

    Excludes1

    • Sudeck's atrophy (M89.0) M89.0
  3. M81.8
    Other osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 6, Use additional code 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Drug-induced osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Idiopathic osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Osteoporosis of disuse without current pathological fracture
    • Postoophorectomy osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Postsurgical malabsorption osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
    • Post-traumatic osteoporosis without current pathological fracture

    Use additional code

    • code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50 with fifth or sixth character 5) T36 T50

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At M81

Excludes1

  • osteoporosis with current pathological fracture (M80.-) M80
  • Sudeck's atrophy (M89.0) M89.0

Use additional code

  • code to identify:
  • major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-) M89.7
  • personal history of (healed) osteoporosis fracture, if applicable (Z87.310) Z87.310

Notes that also apply

Chapter 13 instructions (Notes 1, Excludes2 10): printed on the chapter 13 page.

Index entries

  • Osteoporosis (female) (male) → M81.0
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)age-related → M81.0
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)postmenopausal → M81.0
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)Lequesne → M81.6
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)localized → M81.6
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)disuse → M81.8
  • Osteoporosis (female) (male)specified type NEC → M81.8

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