Osteomyelitis
Non-billable header
M86 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)
- ostemyelitis of:
- orbit (H05.0-)
- petrous bone (H70.2-)
- vertebra (M46.2-)
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
More specific codes M86
- M86.0Acute hematogenous osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.1Other acute osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.2Subacute osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.3Chronic multifocal osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.4Chronic osteomyelitis with draining sinusHeader
- M86.5Other chronic hematogenous osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.6Other chronic osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.8Other osteomyelitisHeader
- M86.9Osteomyelitis, unspecifiedBillable