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ICD-10-CM Code for Other injury of unspecified muscle and tendon at lower leg level S86.99

ICD-10 code S86.99 for Other injury of unspecified muscle and tendon at lower leg level is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes .

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Other injury of unspecified muscle and tendon at lower leg level

S86

Excludes2: injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at ankle (S96.-)
injury of patellar ligament (tendon) (S76.1-)
sprain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.-)

Code also: any associated open wound (S81.-)

 
S86.99 Other injury of unspecified muscle and tendon at lower leg level
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Other injury of unspecified muscle(s) and tendon(s) at lower leg level, right leg
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Other injury of unspecified muscle(s) and tendon(s) at lower leg level, left leg
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Other injury of unspecified muscle(s) and tendon(s) at lower leg level, unspecified leg

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Knee Strain
[QUOTE="mcdream, post: 509840, member: 463170"] Hi all, Which is more appropriate for reporting knee strain S86.81- or S86.91-? TIA [/QUOTE] If the specific muscle (or tendon) that was injured is docu... [ Read More ]
Knee Strain
Hi all, Which is more appropriate for reporting knee strain S86.81- or S86.91-? TIA... [ Read More ]
ICD10 QUESTION
1st question If a patient comes in and is diagnosed with for example pain knee, has an mri, then comes back and there is a definite strain of the muscle s86.811_. Is this new diagnosis code appende... [ Read More ]
ICD-10
Hi, This depends on a few more factors, for example, was there a fracture with it or dislocation, was the avulsion at thigh level or lower leg, partial or complete? I would check the documentation to... [ Read More ]
7th character for re-repair
Oh sorry, that was the secondary code that we were considering. The correct one was S86.011(A or S). But okay thank you! Is the 7th character always an A for a re-injury?... [ Read More ]
7th character help for injury codes
I found this to be helpful: [B]When to use which 7th Character?[/B] [B]A, Initial encounter[/B] Initial encounter is used when the patient is in the active phase of receiving treatment. For any surg... [ Read More ]
Achilles Rupture ICD10 code
[b]Suzanne Hnevsa, COSC, ACS-OR[/b] look at S86.0-- When you look up Sprain of ankle S93.4, it has an excludes2 note, injury of Achilles tendon (S86.0-) Here you will find your code.... [ Read More ]
Leg sprain
Look at S86.11-, S86.21-, S86,31-, S86.81- there are many choices, you will need more specific documentation other than just leg rain to apply a more specific code.... [ Read More ]
ICD-10 favorites
Oh where do you want me to begin? The entire chapter 19. :-) My list: M14.6- Charcot's joint no longer a need to have to have a causation as sometimes we just don't know and gets people from b... [ Read More ]
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