M17.12Billable
Unilateral primary osteoarthritis, left knee
Billable Code
M17.12 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
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis of the Left Knee
Osteoarthritis of Left Knee
Degenerative Joint Disease of the Left Knee
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis of the Left Knee
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis of the Left Knee
Arthroplasty of the Left Knee
Arthroscopy of the Left Knee
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis of the Left Knee
Left Knee Joint Pain
Osteoarthritis of Left Knee
Pain in Left Knee
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis, Left Knee
Unilateral Primary Osteoarthritis of Left Knee
Primary Osteoarthritis
Primary Osteoarthritis of the Left Knee
Effusion of the Left Knee
Total Knee Arthroplasty, Left
Total Left Knee Arthroplasty
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.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Inclusion Terms
1 item
Inclusion Terms
From M17.1:
- •Primary osteoarthritis of knee NOS
Excludes2
10 items
Excludes2
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-)
- •
- •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)
Notes
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Notes
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