M62.5
M62.5: Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M62.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified. 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.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- pelvic muscle wasting (N81.84)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Disuse atrophy NEC
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M62.5
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M62.5
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
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 M62.5
11 child codes. Green means billable.
- M62.50Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, unspecified site
- M62.51Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, shoulder
- M62.52Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, upper arm
- M62.53Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, forearm
- M62.54Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, hand
- M62.55Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, thigh
- M62.56Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, lower leg
- M62.57Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, ankle and foot
- M62.58Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, other site
- M62.59Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, multiple sites
- M62.5AMuscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, back