M87.04
M87.04 — Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of hand and fingers
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M87.04 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for idiopathic aseptic necrosis of hand and fingers. 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.
- Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of metacarpals and phalanges of hands
Risk adjustment
M87.04 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 M87.04
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- M87.041Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of right hand
- M87.042Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of left hand
- M87.043Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of unspecified hand
- M87.044Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of right finger(s)
- M87.045Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of left finger(s)
- M87.046Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of unspecified finger(s)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M87.0. If M87.04 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M87.00Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of unspecified bone
- M87.01Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of shoulder
- M87.02Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of humerus
- M87.03Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of radius, ulna and carpus
- M87.05Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of pelvis and femur
- M87.06Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of tibia and fibula
- M87.07Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of ankle, foot and toes
- M87.08Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of bone, other site
- M87.09Idiopathic aseptic necrosis of bone, multiple sites
Questions about M87.04
- Is M87.04 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M87.04 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M87.04 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other osteopathies (M86-M90).