ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M48.5 Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere... › M48.51
M48.51
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:
- M48.51XA Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region, initial encounter for fracture
- M48.51XD Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region, subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
- M48.51XG Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region, subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
- M48.51XS Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region, sequela of fracture
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial 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.
- Fracture, traumatic > collapsed
- Wedge-shaped or wedging vertebra
- Fracture, pathological > compression
- Compression > fracture > nontraumatic NOS
- Fracture, traumatic > vertebra, vertebral > metastatic
- Collapse > vertebra > occipito-atlanto-axial region
- Collapse > vertebra > in > specified disease NEC > occipito-atlanto-axial region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M48.50 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified | Not billable |
| M48.52 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervical region | Not billable |
| M48.53 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervicothoracic region | Not billable |
| M48.54 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracic region | Not billable |
| M48.55 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region | Not billable |
| M48.56 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbar region | Not billable |
| M48.57 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbosacral region | Not billable |
| M48.58 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Not billable |