M01
M01: Direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M01 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- arthropathy in Lyme disease (A69.23)
- gonococcal arthritis (A54.42)
- meningococcal arthritis (A39.83)
- mumps arthritis (B26.85)
- postinfective arthropathy (M02.-)
- postmeningococcal arthritis (A39.84)
- reactive arthritis (M02.3)
- rubella arthritis (B06.82)
- sarcoidosis arthritis (D86.86)
- typhoid fever arthritis (A01.04)
- tuberculosis arthritis (A18.01-A18.02)
Code first
The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.
Other codes that can never be billed with M01
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M02Postinfective and reactive arthropathies
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead M01
1 child code. Green means billable.