M12.44
M12.44 — Intermittent hydrarthrosis, hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M12.44 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for intermittent hydrarthrosis, hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M12.44 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 M12.44
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M12.4. If M12.44 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M12.40Intermittent hydrarthrosis, unspecified site
- M12.41Intermittent hydrarthrosis, shoulder
- M12.42Intermittent hydrarthrosis, elbow
- M12.43Intermittent hydrarthrosis, wrist
- M12.45Intermittent hydrarthrosis, hip
- M12.46Intermittent hydrarthrosis, knee
- M12.47Intermittent hydrarthrosis, ankle and foot
- M12.48Intermittent hydrarthrosis, other site
- M12.49Intermittent hydrarthrosis, multiple sites
Questions about M12.44
- Is M12.44 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M12.44 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M12.44 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Inflammatory polyarthropathies (M05-M14).