ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
M12.479 Intermittent hydrarthrosis, unspecified ankle and foot
BillableValid for claims as a specific diagnosis code
About M12.479
- Code
- M12.479
- Billable
- Yes
- Short description
- Intermittent hydrarthrosis, unspecified ankle and foot
- Category
- M12 Other and unspecified arthropathy
- Block
- M05-M14 Inflammatory polyarthropathies
- Chapter
- 13 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
- Code set
- FY2027, October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027
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Coding notes for M12.479
No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.
Also applies, from M12 Other and unspecified arthropathy
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
Chapter 13 notes (apply to every code in it)
Note
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- 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)
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