M70

M70: Soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M70 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure. 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.

bursitis NOS (M71.9-)

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.

bursitis of shoulder (M75.5)
enthesopathies (M76-M77)
pressure ulcer (pressure area) (L89.-)

Use additional code

Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

external cause code to identify activity causing disorder (Y93.-)

Includes

Conditions this code covers.

soft tissue disorders of occupational origin

Other codes that can never be billed with M70

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

M65Synovitis and tenosynovitis
M71Other bursopathies

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 M70

10 child codes. Green means billable.