M93.00
M93.00 — Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic)
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M93.00 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic). It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M93.00 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 M93.00
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- M93.001Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), right hip
- M93.002Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), left hip
- M93.003Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), unspecified hip
- M93.004Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), bilateral hips
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M93.0. If M93.00 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M93.01Acute slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable (nontraumatic)
- M93.02Chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable (nontraumatic)
- M93.03Acute on chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable (nontraumatic)
- M93.04Acute slipped upper femoral epiphysis, unstable (nontraumatic)
- M93.05Acute on chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, unstable (nontraumatic)
- M93.06Acute slipped upper femoral epiphysis, unspecified stability (nontraumatic)
- M93.07Acute on chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, unspecified stability (nontraumatic)
Questions about M93.00
- Is M93.00 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M93.00 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M93.00 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Chondropathies (M91-M94).