ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M45-M49 › M49.8 Spondylopathy in diseases... › M49.85
Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracolumbar 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 Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracolumbar region
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.
- Kyphoscoliosis, kyphoscoliotic
- Scoliosis > rachitic > thoracolumbar region
- Spondylitis > in > brucellosis > thoracolumbar region
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M49.80 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, site unspecified | Valid |
| M49.81 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, occipito-atlanto-axial region | Valid |
| M49.82 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervical region | Valid |
| M49.83 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervicothoracic region | Valid |
| M49.84 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracic region | Valid |
| M49.86 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbar region | Valid |
| M49.87 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M49.88 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Valid |
| M49.89 | Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, multiple sites in spine | Valid |