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M46.88
Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, 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 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, 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.
- Spondylitis
- Disease, diseased > spine
- Arthritis, arthritic > back
- Arthritis, arthritic > vertebral
- Disease, diseased > vertebra, vertebral
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > spine
- Spondylopathy > inflammatory > specified type NEC > sacrococcygeal region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M46.80 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, site unspecified | Valid |
| M46.81 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region | Valid |
| M46.82 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervical region | Valid |
| M46.83 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M46.84 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracic region | Valid |
| M46.85 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M46.86 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbar region | Valid |
| M46.87 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M46.89 | Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, multiple sites in spine | Valid |