ICD-10-CM · FY2027

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)

Chapter 13 of the ICD-10-CM Tabular List covers M00-M99 and contains 8,707 codes across 79 categories, of which 6,687 are billable for FY2027.

Excludes2 — not included here

The conditions below are not part of this code, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, this code and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Note

  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

M00-M02 — Infectious arthropathies

M04 — Autoinflammatory syndromes (M04)

M05-M14 — Inflammatory polyarthropathies

M15-M19 — Osteoarthritis

M20-M25 — Other joint disorders

M26-M27 — Dentofacial anomalies [including malocclusion] and other disorders of jaw

M30-M36 — Systemic connective tissue disorders

M40-M43 — Deforming dorsopathies

M45-M49 — Spondylopathies

M50-M54 — Other dorsopathies

M60-M63 — Disorders of muscles

M65-M67 — Disorders of synovium and tendon

M70-M79 — Other soft tissue disorders

M80-M85 — Disorders of bone density and structure

M86-M90 — Other osteopathies

M91-M94 — Chondropathies

M95 — Other disorders of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M95)

M96 — Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of musculoskeletal system, not elsewhere classified (M96)

M97 — Periprosthetic fracture around internal prosthetic joint (M97)

M99 — Biomechanical lesions, not elsewhere classified (M99)