ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M41.8 Other forms of scoliosis › M41.84
Other forms of 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 Other forms of 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.
- Kyphoscoliosis, kyphoscoliotic
- Scoliosis > specified form NEC > thoracic region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M41.80 | Other forms of scoliosis, site unspecified | Valid |
| M41.82 | Other forms of scoliosis, cervical region | Valid |
| M41.83 | Other forms of scoliosis, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M41.85 | Other forms of scoliosis, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M41.86 | Other forms of scoliosis, lumbar region | Valid |
| M41.87 | Other forms of scoliosis, lumbosacral region | Valid |