M89.15
M89.15 — Physeal arrest, femur
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M89.15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for physeal arrest, femur. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M89.15 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 M89.15
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M89.151Complete physeal arrest, right proximal femur
- M89.152Complete physeal arrest, left proximal femur
- M89.153Partial physeal arrest, right proximal femur
- M89.154Partial physeal arrest, left proximal femur
- M89.155Complete physeal arrest, right distal femur
- M89.156Complete physeal arrest, left distal femur
- M89.157Partial physeal arrest, right distal femur
- M89.158Partial physeal arrest, left distal femur
- M89.159Physeal arrest, femur, unspecified
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M89.1. If M89.15 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M89.15
- Is M89.15 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M89.15 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M89.15 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other osteopathies (M86-M90).