M79.8
Other specified soft tissue disorders
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 12 never code together
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Excludes2
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)L40.5-
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)T79.A-
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
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Notes
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Index entries leading here filed at null
No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Alongside this code 10 same parent — M79
M79.0 Rheumatism, unspecified M79.1 Myalgia category 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 category M79.7 Fibromyalgia M79.A Nontraumatic compartment syndrome category M79.9 Soft tissue disorder, unspecified
Subordinate codes 2
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