Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, cervical 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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, cervical 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 > cervical region

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
M46.90	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, site unspecified	Valid
M46.91	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region	Valid
M46.93	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, cervicothoracic region	Valid
M46.94	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, thoracic region	Valid
M46.95	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, thoracolumbar region	Valid
M46.96	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, lumbar region	Valid
M46.97	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, lumbosacral region	Valid
M46.98	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region	Valid
M46.99	Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, multiple sites in spine	Valid