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M62.84
Billable

Sarcopenia

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Age-related sarcopenia

Code First

4 items
  • underlying disease, if applicable, such as:
  • disorders of myoneural junction and muscle disease in diseases classified elsewhere (G73.-)
  • other and unspecified myopathies (G72.-)
  • primary disorders of muscles (G71.-)

Billable Code

M62.84 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

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Muscle Wasting and Atrophy, Not Elsewhere Classified

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.

Excludes1

5 items

From M62:

  • alcoholic myopathy (G72.1)
  • cramp and spasm (R25.2)
  • drug-induced myopathy (G72.0)
  • myalgia (M79.1-)
  • stiff-man syndrome (G25.82)

Excludes2

12 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 M62:

  • nontraumatic hematoma of muscle (M79.81)

From M62.8:

  • nontraumatic hematoma of muscle (M79.81)

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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