ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M48.8X Other specified spondylopathies › M48.8X1
M48.8X1
Other specified spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
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 Other specified spondylopathies, 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| M48.8X2 | Other specified spondylopathies, cervical region | Valid |
| M48.8X3 | Other specified spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M48.8X4 | Other specified spondylopathies, thoracic region | Valid |
| M48.8X5 | Other specified spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region | Valid |
| M48.8X6 | Other specified spondylopathies, lumbar region | Valid |
| M48.8X7 | Other specified spondylopathies, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M48.8X8 | Other specified spondylopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Valid |
| M48.8X9 | Other specified spondylopathies, site unspecified | Valid |