M94.24 is the authoritative medical code for Chondromalacia, joints of hand. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for chondromalacia, joints of hand (ICD-10-CM M94.24), 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 M94.24 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
No. M94.24 (Chondromalacia, joints of hand) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per Excludes1 instructions, M94.24 must not be reported with: chondromalacia patellae (M22.4); postprocedural chondropathies (M96.-).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as M94.24, with their registry titles.
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