M62.4
M62.4: Contracture of muscle
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M62.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for contracture of muscle. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- contracture of joint (M24.5-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Contracture of tendon (sheath)
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M62.4
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M62.4
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with M62.4
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M24.5Contracture of joint
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 M62.4
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M62.40Contracture of muscle, unspecified site
- M62.41Contracture of muscle, shoulder
- M62.42Contracture of muscle, upper arm
- M62.43Contracture of muscle, forearm
- M62.44Contracture of muscle, hand
- M62.45Contracture of muscle, thigh
- M62.46Contracture of muscle, lower leg
- M62.47Contracture of muscle, ankle and foot
- M62.48Contracture of muscle, other site
- M62.49Contracture of muscle, multiple sites
Other codes under M62
- M62.0Separation of muscle (nontraumatic)
- M62.1Other rupture of muscle (nontraumatic)
- M62.2Nontraumatic ischemic infarction of muscle
- M62.3Immobility syndrome (paraplegic)
- M62.5Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified
- M62.8Other specified disorders of muscle
- M62.9Disorder of muscle, unspecified