Wiki Diagnosis is inconsistent with the procedure

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Here's a snapshot provider put M17.11 and M17.12.

After reviewing the following:
Patient is a 52-year-old female we are seeing today for both her knees. She notes that after her third injection of hyaluronic acid. hyaluronic acid helped her symptoms until recently. Now she feels like her knees are "creaky". difficulty sleeping secondary to right knee pain. use a pillow and adjusted accordingly to be able to sleep. has difficulty bending her knees, specially her right knee. does home exercises using the stationary bicycle 3 times a week. does not use any over-the-counter medications.

I would use M17.9 is this correct?
 
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Well, (!) it's bilateral, so if the dx were primary osteoarthritis, then it would be M17.0.

But you haven't given us the requisite information. This is a followup, clearly, so assume there is information in prior visits to note that this is neither posttraumatic nor inflammatory/autoimmune arthritis, in which case the diagnosis would be M17.0. Most knee arthritis would fit into this category, so you should be looking only for exceptions to the rule.
 
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