Pathological fracture, right foot, initial encounter for fracture. M84.474A is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM M84.474A became effective on October 1, 2018.
Personal history of (healed) other pathological fracture. Z87.311 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2020 edition of ICD-10-CM Z87.311 became effective on October 1, 2019.
2018/2019 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M84.48XA. Pathological fracture, other site, initial encounter for fracture. M84.48XA is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
ICD-10-CM Code M84.471 Pathological fracture, right ankle. ICD Code M84.471 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use specify a 7th character that describes the diagnosis 'pathological fracture, right ankle' in more detail. The 7th characters that can be added, and the resulting billable codes, are as follows:
A pathological fracture is classified to code 733.1x, with a fifth digit identifying the fracture site. Pathological fractures often occur in the vertebra (733.13), hip (733.14), and wrist (distal radius or Colles' fracture, 733.12).
A broken bone caused by disease, often by the spread of cancer to the bone.
A fracture is a break in your bone. A break is called a pathologic fracture when force or impact didn't cause the break to happen. Instead, an underlying disease leaves your bones weak and brittle. You may move wrong or shift your body weight in a way that puts pressure on weak bones.
ICD-9 code 733.1 for Pathologic fracture is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range -OSTEOPATHIES, CHONDROPATHIES, AND ACQUIRED MUSCULOSKELETAL DEFORMITIES (730-739).
A pathologic fracture is a broken bone that's caused by a disease, rather than an injury. Some conditions weaken your bones, which makes them more likely to break. Everyday things, such as coughing, stepping out of a car, or bending over can fracture a bone that's been weakened by an illness.
A pathological fracture is one in which breaks in the bone were caused by an underlying disease. Examples of pathological fractures include those caused by cancer (see Figure 1), osteoporosis, or other bone diseases.
The femoral neck and head are the most common locations for pathologic fracture because of the propensity for metastases to involve proximal bones and because of the stress of weight placed on this part of the femur.
Examples of traumatic fractures include fractures resulting from a fall, blunt injury or a motor vehicle accident1. There are several types of traumatic fractures, which include transverse, oblique, spiral, angulated and displaced fractures. A pathological fracture results from a break of a diseased or weakened bone.
Whereas stress fractures occur in normal or metabolically weakened bones, pathologic fractures occur at the site of a bone tumor. Unfortunately, stress fractures may share imaging features with pathologic fractures on plain radiography, and therefore other modalities are commonly utilized to distinguish these entities.
A vertebral fracture may occur spontaneously and thus be more easily identified as occurring due to a disease (e.g. osteoporosis) and, therefore, coded as a pathologic fracture (ICD9 733.13).
Pathologic fractures are also frequently caused by osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition of weak and brittle bones that is most common in older women.
Code M81. 0 is the diagnosis code used for Age-Related Osteoporosis without Current Pathological Fracture.
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