M86.23 is the authoritative medical code for Subacute osteomyelitis, radius and ulna. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for subacute osteomyelitis, radius and ulna (ICD-10-CM M86.23), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for M86.23 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
No. M86.23 (Subacute osteomyelitis, radius and ulna) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per Excludes1 instructions, M86.23 must not be reported with: osteomyelitis due to:; echinococcus (B67.2); gonococcus (A54.43); salmonella (A02.24).
Per Excludes2 instructions, M86.23 and the following may both be reported when both are present: ostemyelitis of:; orbit (H05.0-); petrous bone (H70.2-); vertebra (M46.2-).
Use additional code(s) to specify: code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent; code to identify major osseous defect, if applicable (M89.7-).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as M86.23, with their registry titles.
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