M02.17

M02.17: Postdysenteric arthropathy, ankle and foot

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M02.17 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for postdysenteric arthropathy, ankle and foot. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Postdysenteric arthropathy, tarsus, metatarsus and phalanges

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M02.17

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M02: Postinfective and reactive arthropathies

Behçet's disease (M35.2)
direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere (M01.-)
postmeningococcal arthritis (A39.84)
mumps arthritis (B26.85)
rubella arthritis (B06.82)
syphilis arthritis (late) (A52.77)
rheumatic fever (I00)
tabetic arthropathy [Charcôt's] (A52.16)

Other codes that can never be billed with M02.17

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

M01Direct infections of joint in infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere

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 M02.17

3 child codes. Green means billable.