Spinal stenosis

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 9 more specific codes instead:

• M48.00 Spinal stenosis, site unspecified
• M48.01 Spinal stenosis, occipito-atlanto-axial region
• M48.02 Spinal stenosis, cervical region
• M48.03 Spinal stenosis, cervicothoracic region
• M48.04 Spinal stenosis, thoracic region
• M48.05 Spinal stenosis, thoracolumbar region
• M48.06 Spinal stenosis, lumbar region (also a header)
• M48.07 Spinal stenosis, lumbosacral region
• M48.08 Spinal stenosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region