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M86.149 - Other acute osteomyelitis, unspecified hand

ICD-10-CM Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue · M86-M90 Other osteopathies (M86-M90) · Subcategory of M86.14 · FY2027

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom M86

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

  • osteomyelitis due to:
  • echinococcus (B67.2)
  • gonococcus (A54.43)
  • salmonella (A02.24)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom M86

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

  • ostemyelitis of:
  • orbit (H05.0-)
  • petrous bone (H70.2-)
  • vertebra (M46.2-)
Use Additional CodeFrom M86

Add a secondary code to identify the associated condition or cause when it is documented.

  • code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent
  • code to identify major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-)
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom M86-M90 Other osteopathies (M86-M90)

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

  • postprocedural osteopathies (M96.-)
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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