ICD-10-CM Code M67.95
Unspecified disorder of synovium and tendon, thigh
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code M67.95 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the three child codes of M67.95 that describes the diagnosis 'unspecified disorder of synovium and tendon, thigh' in more detail.
The ICD code M679 is used to code Tendinosis
Tendinosis, sometimes called chronic tendinitis, chronic tendinopathy, or chronic tendon injury, is damage to a tendon at a cellular level (the suffix "osis" implies a pathology of chronic degeneration without inflammation). It is thought to be caused by microtears in the connective tissue in and around the tendon, leading to an increase in tendon repair cells. This may lead to reduced tensile strength, thus increasing the chance of tendon rupture. Tendinosis is often misdiagnosed as tendinitis due to the limited understanding of tendinopathies by the medical community. Classical characteristics of "tendinosis" include degenerative changes in the collagenous matrix, hypercellularity, hypervascularity, and a lack of inflammatory cells which has challenged the original misnomer "tendinitis".
| Specialty: | Rheumatology |
| MeSH Code: | D052256 |
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'M67.95 - Unspecified disorder of synovium and tendon, thigh'
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Parent Code: M67.9 - Unspecified disorder of synovium and tendon