icd 10 code for 739.5

by Mrs. Gudrun Sawayn PhD 8 min read

M99.05

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ICD-10 Equivalent of 739.5

As of October 2015, ICD-9 codes are no longer used for medical coding. Instead, use this equivalent ICD-10-CM code, which is an approximate match to ICD-9 code 739.5:

Historical Information for ICD-9 Code 739.5

Billable codes are sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis.

Not Valid for Submission

739.5 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of nonallopathic lesions, pelvic region. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

Convert 739.5 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

Information for Patients

Your hip is the joint where your thigh bone meets your pelvis bone. Hips are called ball-and-socket joints because the ball-like top of your thigh bone moves within a cup-like space in your pelvis. Your hips are very stable. When they are healthy, it takes great force to hurt them.

ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.

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