Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified
Non-billable header
M79 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- 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)
More specific codes M79
- M79.0Rheumatism, unspecifiedBillable
- M79.1MyalgiaHeader
- M79.2Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecifiedBillable
- M79.3Panniculitis, unspecifiedBillable
- M79.4Hypertrophy of (infrapatellar) fat padBillable
- M79.5Residual foreign body in soft tissueBillable
- M79.6Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toesHeader
- M79.7FibromyalgiaBillable
- M79.ANontraumatic compartment syndromeHeader
- M79.8Other specified soft tissue disordersHeader
- M79.9Soft tissue disorder, unspecifiedBillable