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2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M79.601
2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M79.601
Pain in right arm
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Billable/Specific Code
- M79.601 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM M79.601 became effective on October 1, 2022.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of M79.601 - other international versions of ICD-10 M79.601 may differ.
Applicable To- Pain in right upper limb NOS
The following code(s) above
M79.601 contain annotation back-references
Annotation Back-References
In this context, annotation back-references refer to codes that contain:
- Applicable To annotations, or
- Code Also annotations, or
- Code First annotations, or
- Excludes1 annotations, or
- Excludes2 annotations, or
- Includes annotations, or
- Note annotations, or
- Use Additional annotations
that may be applicable to
M79.601:
- M00-M99
2023 ICD-10-CM Range M00-M99
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissueNote- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Type 2 Excludes- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
- M79
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M79
Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
Type 1 Excludes- psychogenic rheumatism (F45.8)
- soft tissue pain, psychogenic (F45.41)
- M79.6
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M79.6
Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code
- Arm pain, both sides
- Bilateral arm ischemic limb pain
- Chronic arm pain, both sides
- Chronic pain of bilateral upper limbs
- Chronic pain of right upper limb
- Chronic right arm pain
- Pain of bilateral upper limbs
- Pain of bilateral upper limbs co-occurrent and due to ischemia
- Pain of both arms
- Pain of right upper limb co-occurrent and due to ischemia
- Right arm ischemic limb pain
- Right arm pain
ICD-10-CM M79.601 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v40.0):
- 555 Signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue with mcc
- 556 Signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal system and connective tissue without mcc
Convert M79.601 to ICD-9-CM
Code History
- 2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
- 2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
- 2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
- 2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
- 2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
- 2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
- 2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
- 2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change
ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To M79.601
M79.11 …… of mastication muscle
M79.12 …… of auxiliary muscles, head and neck
M79.2 Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecified
M79.3 Panniculitis, unspecified
M79.4 Hypertrophy of (infrapatellar) fat pad
M79.5 Residual foreign body in soft tissue
M79.6 Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes
M79.60 Pain in limb, unspecified
M79.601
Pain in right arm
M79.629 Pain in unspecified upper arm
Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.
