M79.8
M79.8 — Other specified soft tissue disorders
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M79.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified soft tissue disorders. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M79.8 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 M79.8
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M79. If M79.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M79.0Rheumatism, unspecified
- M79.1Myalgia
- M79.2Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecified
- M79.3Panniculitis, unspecified
- M79.4Hypertrophy of (infrapatellar) fat pad
- M79.5Residual foreign body in soft tissue
- M79.6Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes
- M79.7Fibromyalgia
- M79.ANontraumatic compartment syndrome
- M79.9Soft tissue disorder, unspecified
Questions about M79.8
- Is M79.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M79.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M79.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other soft tissue disorders (M70-M79).