ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M48 Other spondylopathies › M48.8
M48.8
Other specified spondylopathies
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 1 more specific code instead:
- M48.8X Other specified spondylopathies (also a header)
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other specified spondylopathies
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.
- Thinning vertebra
- Spondylitis > muscularis
- Atrophy, atrophic > spine
- Disease, diseased > spine
- Atrophy, atrophic > vertebra
- Syndrome > interspinous ligament
- Disease, diseased > vertebra, vertebral
- Ossification > ligament > posterior longitudinal
- Spondylopathy > specified NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M48.0 | Spinal stenosis | Not billable |
| M48.1 | Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier] | Not billable |
| M48.2 | Kissing spine | Not billable |
| M48.3 | Traumatic spondylopathy | Not billable |
| M48.4 | Fatigue fracture of vertebra | Not billable |
| M48.5 | Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified | Not billable |
| M48.9 | Spondylopathy, unspecified | Valid |