ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M47 Spondylosis › M47.9
Spondylosis, unspecified
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 Spondylosis, unspecified
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 M47 Spondylosis
Includes
- arthrosis or osteoarthritis of spine
- degeneration of facet joints
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.
- Arthrosis
- Osteoarthrosis
- Spondylarthrosis
- Arthrosis > spine
- Pachydermoperiostosis
- Osteoarthritis > spine
- Osteoarthrosis > spine
- Syndrome > facet joint
- Bamberger-Marie disease
- Marie-Bamberger disease
- Spondylitis > deformans
- Osteoarthropathy > spine
- Arthropathy > facet joint
- Arthritis, arthritic > spine
- Arthropathy > osteopulmonary
- Myelopathy > in > spondylosis
- Osteoarthropathy > foot joint
- Myelopathy > spondylogenic NEC
- Arthritis, arthritic > atrophic
- Spondylitis > senescent, senile
- Arthritis, arthritic > deformans
- Osteoarthritis > primary > spine
- Osteoarthropathy > multiple site
- Arthritis, arthritic > facet joint
- Osteoarthritis > secondary > spine
- Arthritis, arthritic > degenerative
- Compression > spinal > spondylogenic
- Osteoarthropathy > specified joint NEC
- Disease, diseased > joint > facet joint
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > facet joint
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic > spondylitis
- Change > degenerative, spine or vertebra
- Disease, diseased > joint > degenerative
- Disease, diseased > joint > hypertrophic
- Degeneration, degenerative > facet joints
- Arthritis, arthritic > senile or senescent
- Degeneration, degenerative > joint disease
- Osteoarthropathy > pulmonary > hypertrophic
- Arthritis, arthritic > meaning osteoarthritis
- Disease, diseased > joint > degenerative > spine
Showing 40 of 44 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M47.0 | Anterior spinal and vertebral artery compression syndromes | Not billable |
| M47.1 | Other spondylosis with myelopathy | Not billable |
| M47.2 | Other spondylosis with radiculopathy | Not billable |
| M47.8 | Other spondylosis | Not billable |