M23.2

M23.2: Derangement of meniscus due to old tear or injury

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M23.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for derangement of meniscus due to old tear or injury. 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.

Old bucket-handle tear

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M23.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M23: Internal derangement of knee

ankylosis (M24.66)
deformity of knee (M21.-)
osteochondritis dissecans (M93.2)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M23.2

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on M23: Internal derangement of knee

current injury - see injury of knee and lower leg (S80-S89)
recurrent dislocation or subluxation of joints (M24.4)
recurrent dislocation or subluxation of patella (M22.0-M22.1)

Other codes that can never be billed with M23.2

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

S83.2Tear of meniscus, current injury

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 M23.2

7 child codes. Green means billable.