M86.2
M86.2: Subacute osteomyelitis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M86.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for subacute osteomyelitis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M86.2
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M86.2
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
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 M86.2
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M86.20Subacute osteomyelitis, unspecified site
- M86.21Subacute osteomyelitis, shoulder
- M86.22Subacute osteomyelitis, humerus
- M86.23Subacute osteomyelitis, radius and ulna
- M86.24Subacute osteomyelitis, hand
- M86.25Subacute osteomyelitis, femur
- M86.26Subacute osteomyelitis, tibia and fibula
- M86.27Subacute osteomyelitis, ankle and foot
- M86.28Subacute osteomyelitis, other site
- M86.29Subacute osteomyelitis, multiple sites