2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 823.20
Closed fracture of shaft of tibia alone
- 2015
- Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
- Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
- ICD-9-CM 823.20 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 823.20 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
823.20 converts approximately to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM S82.209A Unspecified fracture of shaft of unspecified tibia, initial encounter for closed fracture
Approximate Synonyms
- Closed fracture of shaft of left tibia
- Closed fracture of shaft of right tibia
- Closed fracture of shaft of tibia
- Closed fracture tibia, shaft
- Closed FX tibia, shaft
- Left tibia shaft (lower leg bone) fracture
- Left tibia shaft Fx
- Right tibia shaft (lower leg bone) fracture
- Right tibia shaft Fx
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to
823.20:
- Fracture (abduction) (adduction) (avulsion) (compression) (crush) (dislocation) (oblique) (separation) (closed) 829.0
tibia (closed) 823.80
with fibula 823.82- condyles - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- distal end 824.8
- epiphysis
lower 824.8- upper - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- head (involving knee joint) - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- intercondyloid eminence - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- involving ankle 824.0
- lower end or extremity (anterior lip) (posterior lip) 824.8
- malleolus (internal) (medial) 824.0
- open NEC 823.90
- pathologic 733.16
- proximal end - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- shaft 823.20
- spine - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- stress 733.93
- torus 823.40
- tuberosity - see Fracture, tibia, upper end
- upper end or extremity (condyle) (epiphysis) (head) (spine) (proximal end) (tuberosity) 823.00
