ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M43 Other deforming dorsopathies › M43.0

M43.0

Spondylolysis

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:

  • M43.00 Spondylolysis, site unspecified
  • M43.01 Spondylolysis, occipito-atlanto-axial region
  • M43.02 Spondylolysis, cervical region
  • M43.03 Spondylolysis, cervicothoracic region
  • M43.04 Spondylolysis, thoracic region
  • M43.05 Spondylolysis, thoracolumbar region
  • M43.06 Spondylolysis, lumbar region
  • M43.07 Spondylolysis, lumbosacral region
  • M43.08 Spondylolysis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
  • M43.09 Spondylolysis, multiple sites in spine

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Spondylolysis

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 M43 Other deforming dorsopathies

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • congenital spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis (Q76.2)
  • hemivertebra (Q76.3-Q76.4)
  • Klippel-Feil syndrome (Q76.1)
  • lumbarization and sacralization (Q76.4)
  • platyspondylisis (Q76.4)
  • spina bifida occulta (Q76.0)
  • spinal curvature in osteoporosis (M80.-)
  • spinal curvature in Paget's disease of bone [osteitis deformans] (M88.-)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M43.1 Spondylolisthesis Not billable
M43.2 Fusion of spine Not billable
M43.3 Recurrent atlantoaxial dislocation with myelopathy Valid
M43.4 Other recurrent atlantoaxial dislocation Valid
M43.5 Other recurrent vertebral dislocation Not billable
M43.6 Torticollis Valid
M43.8 Other specified deforming dorsopathies Not billable
M43.9 Deforming dorsopathy, unspecified Valid