M80.04 vs M80.041D
M80.04 (Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture, hand) compared with M80.041D (Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture, right hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing), from the official CMS tabular data.
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Summary
These codes represent different levels of the same hierarchy: M80.04 is the non-billable header that contains M80.041D, so only M80.041D (or a sibling) is reported.
Registry fact- What is different?
Title wording and billing status.The titles share “Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture”; M80.04 says “hand” where M80.041D says “right hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing”. M80.04 is a non-billable header; M80.041D is billable.
Registry fact
- Can these codes be reported together?
Not as a pair.M80.04 is the non-billable header that contains M80.041D. A header is not reported on a claim, so the choice is M80.041D or a sibling that matches the documentation.
Registry fact
- Is one more specific?
Yes.M80.041D is a subdivision of M80.04 in the tabular hierarchy, so it is the more specific of the two.
Registry fact
- Is one a parent or header code?
Yes.M80.04 is the non-billable header that contains M80.041D. A header stands for the whole family beneath it and is not reported on a claim.
Registry fact
Nothing found in 4 other checks
- Is there an Excludes1 relationship?
None.Neither entry carries an Excludes1 note that names the other code. M80.04 carries 3 Excludes1 notes and M80.041D carries 3 Excludes1 notes covering other codes; the side-by-side table quotes them.
Official rule
- Is there an Excludes2 relationship?
None.Neither entry carries an Excludes2 note that names the other code. M80.04 carries 1 Excludes2 note and M80.041D carries 1 Excludes2 note covering other codes; the side-by-side table quotes them.
Official rule
- Are there sequencing instructions?
None.Neither entry carries a Code First or Use Additional Code note that names the other.
Official rule
- Are there other coding relationships?
None found.No laterality, encounter-phase, Table of Neoplasms, Table of Drugs and Chemicals, or history-versus-active-disease relationship links these codes.
MedCoder-derived
Official rule: a tabular instructional note or a section of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, quoted as published. Registry fact: the codes’ own published attributes (titles, billable status, position in the hierarchy, code set). MedCoder-derived: a reading MedCoder computes from those facts; it is not itself a rule. How to read the labels
Can these codes be reported together?
Not as a pair — M80.04 is not reportable. M80.04 is the non-billable category that contains M80.041D.
A header stands for the whole family of codes beneath it and is not reported on a claim, so the choice is M80.041D or a sibling that matches the documentation. No Excludes1/Excludes2 relationship exists between these codes in the official tabular list.
Official guidance behind these answers
Section I.B.2 — Level of Detail in Coding · applies to: M80.04 and M80.041D
Diagnosis codes are to be used and reported at their highest number of characters available and to the highest level of specificity documented in the medical record. ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are composed of codes with 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 characters. Codes with three characters are included in ICD-10-CM as the heading of a category of codes that may be further subdivided by the use of fourth and/or fifth characters and/or sixth characters, which provide greater detail. A three-character code is to be used only if it is not further subdivided. A code is invalid if it has not been coded to the full number of characters required for that code, including the 7th character, if applicable.
ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines FY2027
Quoted from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting in effect for the release shown. The tabular notes above are the code-level instruction; these sections are the convention that says how such a note is applied. Source document (CMS PDF) · Release and checksum
Side by side
Similar descriptions do not make codes interchangeable. The documentation and the official instructions decide which code applies.
Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture, hand
Age-related osteoporosis with current pathological fracture, right hand, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- collapsed vertebra NOS (M48.5)
- pathological fracture NOS (M84.4)
- wedging of vertebra NOS (M48.5)
- personal history of (healed) osteoporosis fracture (Z87.310)
- code to identify major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-)
M80 Osteoporosis with current pathological fracture
M00-M99 — Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue (M00-M99)
- osteoporosis with current fragility fracture
- The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category M80:
No Code first and Code also note at either code.
Notes are the code’s own tabular entry, quoted as published. A note that names the other code is the one the verdict above rests on. In a row that differs, each code’s own notes are listed under it, and the notes every code shares are listed once beneath them.
Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2027). A coding-rule comparison, not billing advice: payer-specific edits and medical-necessity policy are outside its scope. All data sources