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M00.861
Billable

Arthritis due to other bacteria, right knee

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Billable Code

M00.861 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for knee infection
knee infection
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Infection of the Knee Joint

View documentation for right knee septic arthritis
right knee septic arthritis
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Septic Arthritis of Right Knee

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septic arthritis right knee
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Septic Arthritis, Right Knee

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes2

11 items

From M00-M99:

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

From M00:

  • infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal joint prosthesis (T84.5-)

Use Additional Code

1 item

From M00.8:

  • code (B96) to identify bacteria

Notes

1 item

From M00-M99:

  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
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