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M12.569 - Traumatic arthropathy, unspecified knee

ICD-10-CM Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue · M05-M14 Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14) · Subcategory of M12.56 · FY2027

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom M12.5

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • current injury-see Alphabetic Index
  • post-traumatic osteoarthritis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.2-M18.3)
  • post-traumatic osteoarthritis of hip (M16.4-M16.5)
  • post-traumatic osteoarthritis of knee (M17.2-M17.3)
  • post-traumatic osteoarthritis NOS (M19.1-)
  • post-traumatic osteoarthritis of other single joints (M19.1-)
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom M12

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • arthrosis (M15-M19)
  • cricoarytenoid arthropathy (J38.7)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter M00-M99

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • 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)
NotesFrom Chapter M00-M99

Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.

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

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