ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M41 Scoliosis › M41.9
Scoliosis, unspecified
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 Scoliosis, unspecified
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
- Kyphoscoliosis, kyphoscoliotic
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M41.0 | Infantile idiopathic scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.1 | Juvenile and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.2 | Other idiopathic scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.3 | Thoracogenic scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.4 | Neuromuscular scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.5 | Other secondary scoliosis | Not billable |
| M41.8 | Other forms of scoliosis | Not billable |