ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M41.12 Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis › M41.124
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, thoracic region
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, thoracic region
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from M41 Scoliosis
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital scoliosis NOS (Q67.5)
- congenital scoliosis due to bony malformation (Q76.3)
- postural congenital scoliosis (Q67.5)
- kyphoscoliotic heart disease (I27.1)
Excludes2 - not included here
- postprocedural scoliosis (M96.89)
- postradiation scoliosis (M96.5)
Includes
- kyphoscoliosis
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Scoliosis > adolescent
- Kyphoscoliosis, kyphoscoliotic
- Scoliosis > idiopathic > adolescent > thoracic region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M41.122 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, cervical region | Valid |
| M41.123 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M41.125 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M41.126 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, lumbar region | Valid |
| M41.127 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M41.129 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, site unspecified | Valid |