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ICD-10-CM chapter 13 · M00-M99

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

About chapter 13

Chapter 13 (M00-M99) contains 79 categories and 6,687 billable codes for FY2027. This year's update added 33 and deleted 0 codes here. 5 codes are MCCs and 1,453 are CCs when reported as secondary diagnoses.

24 code blocks

Chapter notes

Note
  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes2
  • 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)