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C40-C41 ICD-10-CM Code: Malignant neoplasms of bone and articular cartilage (C40-C41)

Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Malignant neoplasms of bone and articular cartilage (C40-C41) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (C40-C41). A more specific billable subcode must be selected for claims submission.

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for C40-C41 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Includes

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

  • malignant neoplasm of cartilage (articular) (joint)
  • malignant neoplasm of periosteum

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions generally not reported together with this code (Excludes1) -- an error unless the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Frequently Compared Codes

The official Excludes notes on C40-C41 name these codes. Each comparison page covers when the two can — or must not — be reported together.

Change history

No changes recorded for this code — unchanged since the FY2016 baseline of the change ledger.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to C40-C41 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • C40 — Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage of limbs
  • C41 — Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage of other and unspecified sites