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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.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M79.8

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)

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 M79.8

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under M79

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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