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M88.85

M88.85: Osteitis deformans of thigh

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M88.85 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for osteitis deformans of thigh. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M88.85

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M88: Osteitis deformans [Paget's disease of bone]

  • osteitis deformans in neoplastic disease (M90.6)

Other codes that can never be billed with M88.85

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • M43Other deforming dorsopathies
  • M90.6Osteitis deformans in neoplastic diseases

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 M88.85

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under M88.8

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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