M81.0

Age-related osteoporosis without current pathological fracture

Billable / specific

M81.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Inclusion terms

Applicable to

  • Involutional osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  • Osteoporosis NOS
  • Postmenopausal osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  • Senile osteoporosis without current pathological fracture

Includes (from M81)

  • 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.

  • osteoporosis with current pathological fracture (M80.-) (from M81)
  • Sudeck's atrophy (M89.0) (from M81)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M81)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M81)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M81)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M81)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M81)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M81)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M81)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M81)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M81)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M81)

Use additional code

Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.

  • code to identify: (from M81)
  • major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-) (from M81)
  • personal history of (healed) osteoporosis fracture, if applicable (Z87.310) (from M81)

Also known as

  • Involutional osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  • Osteoporosis NOS
  • Postmenopausal osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  • Senile osteoporosis without current pathological fracture
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteoporosis, age-related
  • Osteoporosis, postmenopausal

Parent code

  • M81Osteoporosis without current pathological fractureHeader

Related codes

  • M81.6Localized osteoporosis [Lequesne]Billable
  • M81.8Other osteoporosis without current pathological fractureBillable

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