ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M48.8X Other specified spondylopathies › M48.8X2
M48.8X2
Other specified spondylopathies, cervical 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, cervical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| M48.8X1 | Other specified spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial 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 |