Cervical disc disorders

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 6 more specific codes instead:

M50.0 Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy (also a header)
M50.1 Cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy (also a header)
M50.2 Other cervical disc displacement (also a header)
M50.3 Other cervical disc degeneration (also a header)
M50.8 Other cervical disc disorders (also a header)
M50.9 Cervical disc disorder, unspecified (also a header)

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.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Cervical disc disorders

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.

This code

Includes

cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
cervicothoracic disc disorders

Inherited from the M50-M54 section Other dorsopathies (M50-M54)

Excludes1 - never coded here

current injury - see injury of spine by body region
discitis NOS (M46.4-)