M70.82

M70.82: Other soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure of upper arm

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M70.82 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure of upper arm. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M70.82

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

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

bursitis NOS (M71.9-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M70.82

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

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

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

Other codes that can never be billed with M70.82

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 M70.82

3 child codes. Green means billable.