ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M42.1 Adult osteochondrosis of spine › M42.18
M42.18
Adult osteochondrosis of spine, sacral and sacrococcygeal 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 Adult osteochondrosis of spine, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
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.
- Apophysitis
- Epiphysitis
- Acrostealgia
- Osteochondritis
- Osteochondrosis
- Loosening > epiphysis
- Osteochondrosis > vertebral
- Epiphyseolysis, epiphysiolysis
- Osteochondropathy > osteochondrosis
- Osteochondrosis > spine > adult > sacrococcygeal region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M42.10 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, site unspecified | Valid |
| M42.11 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, occipito-atlanto-axial region | Valid |
| M42.12 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, cervical region | Valid |
| M42.13 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M42.14 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, thoracic region | Valid |
| M42.15 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M42.16 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, lumbar region | Valid |
| M42.17 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M42.19 | Adult osteochondrosis of spine, multiple sites in spine | Valid |