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ICD-10 Code M19.14: Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, hand
Reviewed by HealthAssure Clinical TeamUpdated 21 May 2026
What is this code?
ICD-10 entries help standardize how diagnoses are organized for coding, reporting, analytics, and documentation. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).
đź“‹Clinical overview
This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes post-traumatic osteoarthritis. The most accurate code depends on the affected joint site and whether laterality is documented.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents post-traumatic osteoarthritis, hand in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code may act more like a grouping or parent code, so a more specific child code may be used in final documentation when available.
What it does not mean
- A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
- A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.
- This entry may represent a broader category rather than the most specific billable code.
đź©şClinical context
When commonly used
- Orthopedic, rehabilitation, primary-care, and utilization-review workflows where degenerative joint disease is explicitly linked to prior trauma.
- Coding workflows where the record supports post-traumatic osteoarthritis and the final code changes based on joint site or laterality.
Common management context
- Evaluation often includes joint pain and function review, prior-injury history, imaging context, and planning for orthopedic follow-up, rehabilitation, or symptom-directed management.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies the exact joint site, laterality, or another post-traumatic versus primary-degenerative joint context.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Orthopedic Specialist, Rheumatologist.
🔍Key distinctions
Important notes
- These ICD-10 codes are reserved for post-traumatic osteoarthritis rather than primary osteoarthritis or broader traumatic-arthropathy descriptions.
- Joint-site and laterality detail drive most of the code specificity inside this family.
- Joint-site detail matters here because shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle-foot, and other-site post-traumatic osteoarthritis are coded separately when the chart names the affected joint more specifically.
- Documentation that describes post-traumatic osteoarthritis is coded differently from primary osteoarthritis, traumatic arthropathy, or nontraumatic joint derangement.
Important exclusions
- post-traumatic osteoarthritis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.2-, M18.3-)
Related codes to consider
M19.141Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, right hand
Related post-traumatic-joint ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies the exact joint, laterality, post-traumatic osteoarthritis versus traumatic arthropathy pattern, or another joint context.
M19.142Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, left hand
Related post-traumatic-joint ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies the exact joint, laterality, post-traumatic osteoarthritis versus traumatic arthropathy pattern, or another joint context.
M19.149Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, unspecified hand
Related post-traumatic-joint ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies the exact joint, laterality, post-traumatic osteoarthritis versus traumatic arthropathy pattern, or another joint context.
Code hierarchy
chapter
13Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99)
block
M00-M25Arthropathies
block
M15-M19Osteoarthritis
category
M19Other and unspecified osteoarthritis
category
M19.1Post-traumatic osteoarthritis of other joints
currentM19.1
Official coding notes
Excludes2 (may code together if documented)
- post-traumatic osteoarthritis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.2-, M18.3-)
Where you may see this code
You may see this entry in coding references, medical records, or claims workflows when a broader diagnosis category is being reviewed before a more specific code is chosen.
Related specialists
Orthopedic SpecialistRheumatologist
Related codes
Sibling codes
Coding guidelines
Compatibility
Legacy code aligns to an official FY 2026 category. Frontend should resolve to the official category page and surface the billable child codes.
Legacy codes
M19.14
Replacement codes
M19.141 — Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, right handM19.142 — Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, left handM19.149 — Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, unspecified hand
Common synonyms
Post-traumatic osteoarthritis, hand
Frequently asked questions
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