ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M46 Other inflammatory spondylopathies › M46.8

M46.8

Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies

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:

  • M46.80 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, site unspecified
  • M46.81 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
  • M46.82 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervical region
  • M46.83 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region
  • M46.84 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracic region
  • M46.85 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region
  • M46.86 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbar region
  • M46.87 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbosacral region
  • M46.88 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
  • M46.89 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, 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 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M46.0 Spinal enthesopathy Not billable
M46.1 Sacroiliitis, not elsewhere classified Valid
M46.2 Osteomyelitis of vertebra Not billable
M46.3 Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic) Not billable
M46.4 Discitis, unspecified Not billable
M46.5 Other infective spondylopathies Not billable
M46.9 Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy Not billable