AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2022 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis (Nontraumatic)

Subcategory M93.0, Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), has been further expanded and new codes have been created to specifically identify unspecified, acute, chronic, and acute on chronic slips of the hip. This expansion also includes new subcategories to describe the stability of the hip as stable, unstable and unspecified stability. The new codes are as follows: M93.004, Unspecified slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic), bilateral hips M93.014, Acute slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable (nontraumatic), bilateral hips M93.024, Chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable (nontraumatic), bilateral hips M93.034, Acute on chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, stable...

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