M23.01
M23.01 — Cystic meniscus, anterior horn of medial meniscus
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M23.01 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cystic meniscus, anterior horn of medial meniscus. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M23.01 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 M23.01
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M23.0. If M23.01 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M23.00Cystic meniscus, unspecified meniscus
- M23.02Cystic meniscus, posterior horn of medial meniscus
- M23.03Cystic meniscus, other medial meniscus
- M23.04Cystic meniscus, anterior horn of lateral meniscus
- M23.05Cystic meniscus, posterior horn of lateral meniscus
- M23.06Cystic meniscus, other lateral meniscus
Questions about M23.01
- Is M23.01 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M23.01 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M23.01 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other joint disorders (M20-M25).