ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M40-M43 › M43.8X Other specified deforming dorsopathies › M43.8X3
Other specified deforming dorsopathies, cervicothoracic 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 specified deforming dorsopathies, cervicothoracic 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 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.-)
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.
- Deformity > back
- Disorder > spine
- Tilting vertebra
- Curvature > spine
- Deformity > spine
- Angulation > spine
- Deflection > spine
- Deformity > spinal
- Deformity > posture
- Deformity > vertebra
- Deformity > spinal > column
- Deformity > spine > specified NEC
- Disease, diseased > spine > joint
- Disease, diseased > joint > spine NEC
- Defect, defective > postural NEC, spine
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > spine
- Rotation > spine, incomplete or insufficient
- Rotation > vertebra, incomplete or insufficient
- Deformity > coccyx
- Deformity > sacrum
- Angulation > sacrum
- Deformity > lumbosacral > acquired
- Dorsopathy > deforming > specified NEC
- Deformity > sacroiliac joint > acquired
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M43.8X1 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region | Valid |
| M43.8X2 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, cervical region | Valid |
| M43.8X4 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, thoracic region | Valid |
| M43.8X5 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M43.8X6 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, lumbar region | Valid |
| M43.8X7 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M43.8X8 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Valid |
| M43.8X9 | Other specified deforming dorsopathies, site unspecified | Valid |