242A for Other tear of medial meniscus, current injury, left knee, initial encounter is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .
S83. 242A - Other tear of medial meniscus, current injury, left knee [initial encounter]. ICD-10-CM.
241A.
S83. 241 - Other tear of medial meniscus, current injury, right knee. ICD-10-CM.
Tear of meniscus, current injury S83. 2-
A medial meniscus tear is an injury to the meniscus (cartilage tissue) that is located on the inside (inner aspect) of the knee. Injuries to the medial meniscus are more common than lateral meniscus injuries and may result in pain, stiffness, swelling, locking, catching, or buckling.
Overview. Arthroscopic meniscectomy is an outpatient minimally invasive surgical procedure used to treat a torn meniscus cartilage in the knee. The meniscus is often torn as a result of sport-related injury in athletic individuals. Only the torn segment of the meniscus is removed.
Example 1—The surgeon performs and documents arthroscopic left lateral meniscectomy and arthroscopic tricompartmental chondroplasty and reports CPT code 29881.
A meniscectomy is a type of surgery that's used to treat a damaged meniscus. A meniscus is a structure made of cartilage that helps your knee work properly. You have two of them in each knee: lateral meniscus, near the outer edge of your knee joint.
S80. 911A - Unspecified superficial injury of right knee [initial encounter]. ICD-10-CM.
M25. 561 Pain in right knee - ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes.
ICD-10 | Effusion, right knee (M25. 461)
Other tear of medial meniscus, current injury, unspecified knee, sequela 1 S83.249S is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. 2 Short description: Oth tear of medial mensc, current injury, unsp knee, sequela 3 The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM S83.249S became effective on October 1, 2020. 4 This is the American ICD-10-CM version of S83.249S - other international versions of ICD-10 S83.249S may differ.
Use secondary code (s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code. Type 1 Excludes.