M79.62

M79.62: Pain in upper arm

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M79.62 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pain in upper arm. 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.

Pain in axillary region

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M79.62

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M79: Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified

psychogenic rheumatism (F45.8)
soft tissue pain, psychogenic (F45.41)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M79.62

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

Written on M79.6: Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes

pain in joint (M25.5-)

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 M79.62

3 child codes. Green means billable.