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M49.8

Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere

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 10 more specific codes instead:

  • M49.80 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, site unspecified
  • M49.81 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, occipito-atlanto-axial region
  • M49.82 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervical region
  • M49.83 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervicothoracic region
  • M49.84 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracic region
  • M49.85 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracolumbar region
  • M49.86 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbar region
  • M49.87 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbosacral region
  • M49.88 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
  • M49.89 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, multiple sites in spine

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 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from M49 Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • curvature of spine in tuberculosis [Pott's] (A18.01)
  • enteropathic arthropathies (M07.-)
  • gonococcal spondylitis (A54.41)
  • neuropathic [tabes dorsalis] spondylitis (A52.11)
  • neuropathic spondylopathy in syringomyelia (G95.0)
  • neuropathic spondylopathy in tabes dorsalis (A52.11)
  • nonsyphilitic neuropathic spondylopathy NEC (G98.0)
  • spondylitis in syphilis (acquired) (A52.77)
  • tuberculous spondylitis (A18.01)
  • typhoid fever spondylitis (A01.05)

Code first

  • underlying disease, such as:
  • brucellosis (A23.-)
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (G60.0)
  • enterobacterial infections (A01-A04)
  • osteitis fibrosa cystica (E21.0)

Includes

  • curvature of spine in diseases classified elsewhere
  • deformity of spine in diseases classified elsewhere
  • kyphosis in diseases classified elsewhere
  • scoliosis in diseases classified elsewhere
  • spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere

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.