M75.3
M75.3 — Calcific tendinitis of shoulder
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M75.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for calcific tendinitis of shoulder. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Calcified bursa of shoulder
Other codes that can never be billed with M75.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at M75.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading M75.3 alone.
Risk adjustment
M75.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead M75.3
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M75. If M75.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M75.3
- Is M75.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M75.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M75.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other soft tissue disorders (M70-M79).