M12.1
M12.1 — Kaschin-Beck disease
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M12.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for kaschin-beck disease. 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.
- Osteochondroarthrosis deformans endemica
Risk adjustment
M12.1 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead M12.1
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M12.10Kaschin-Beck disease, unspecified site
- M12.11Kaschin-Beck disease, shoulder
- M12.12Kaschin-Beck disease, elbow
- M12.13Kaschin-Beck disease, wrist
- M12.14Kaschin-Beck disease, hand
- M12.15Kaschin-Beck disease, hip
- M12.16Kaschin-Beck disease, knee
- M12.17Kaschin-Beck disease, ankle and foot
- M12.18Kaschin-Beck disease, vertebrae
- M12.19Kaschin-Beck disease, multiple sites
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M12. If M12.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M12.1
- Is M12.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M12.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M12.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).