ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M48.8 Other specified spondylopathies › M48.8X

M48.8X

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.

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:

  • M48.8X1 Other specified spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
  • M48.8X2 Other specified spondylopathies, cervical region
  • M48.8X3 Other specified spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region
  • M48.8X4 Other specified spondylopathies, thoracic region
  • M48.8X5 Other specified spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region
  • M48.8X6 Other specified spondylopathies, lumbar region
  • M48.8X7 Other specified spondylopathies, lumbosacral region
  • M48.8X8 Other specified spondylopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
  • M48.8X9 Other specified spondylopathies, site unspecified

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.

  1. 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.