M62.51
M62.51: Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, shoulder
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M62.51 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, shoulder. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M62.51
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on M62.5: Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M62.51
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 M62.51
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under M62.5
- M62.50Muscle wasting and atrophy, not elsewhere classified, unspecified site
- 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