M81.8

Other osteoporosis without current pathological fracture

Risk-adjusting (HCC)Billable code

HCC risk adjustment mapping

RxHCC V08

RXHCC87

Osteoporosis, Vertebral and Pathological Fractures

Coding notes

Excludes 1 never coded together · Excludes 2 may co-exist

This code · M81.8
Use additional

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

Synonyms

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

Inherited from M81Osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
Excludes 1

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

Use additional

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

Inherited from chapter 13Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Excludes 2

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-M25) Arthropathies (M00-M25) Includes: Disorders affecting predominantly peripheral (limb) joints (M40-M54) Dorsopathies (M40-M54) (M60-M79) Soft tissue disorders (M60-M79) (M80-M94) Osteopathies and chondropathies (M80-M94)

Official Guidelines for M81.8

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