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M45.4

Ankylosing spondylitis of thoracic region

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Ankylosing spondylitis of 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 M45 Ankylosing spondylitis

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • arthropathy in Reiter's disease (M02.3-)
  • juvenile (ankylosing) spondylitis (M08.1)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • Behçet's disease (M35.2)

Also known as

  • Rheumatoid arthritis of spine

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.

Showing 40 of 69 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M45.0 Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine Valid
M45.1 Ankylosing spondylitis of occipito-atlanto-axial region Valid
M45.2 Ankylosing spondylitis of cervical region Valid
M45.3 Ankylosing spondylitis of cervicothoracic region Valid
M45.5 Ankylosing spondylitis of thoracolumbar region Valid
M45.6 Ankylosing spondylitis lumbar region Valid
M45.7 Ankylosing spondylitis of lumbosacral region Valid
M45.8 Ankylosing spondylitis sacral and sacrococcygeal region Valid
M45.9 Ankylosing spondylitis of unspecified sites in spine Valid
M45.A Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis Not billable