ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M50.2 Other cervical disc displacement › M50.20
Other cervical disc displacement, unspecified 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 cervical disc displacement, unspecified cervical 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 M50 Cervical disc disorders
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-)
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.
- Herniation
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Sequestration > disc
- Rupture, ruptured > disc
- Prolapse, prolapsed > disc
- Syndrome > cervical > disc
- Gangrene, gangrenous > hernia
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive
- Herniation > nucleus pulposus
- Disease, diseased > discogenic
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated
- Rupture, ruptured > obstructed
- Complex > jumped process, spine
- Dislocation > thorax > vertebra
- Extrusion > intervertebral disc
- Hernia, hernial > with > gangrene
- Falling, falls > any organ or part
- Hernia, hernial > nucleus pulposus
- Disease, diseased > nucleus pulposus
- Hernia, hernial > with > irreducible
- Hernia, hernial > with > obstruction
- Incarceration, incarcerated > hernia
- Strangulation, strangulated > hernia
- Dislocation > vertebra > nontraumatic
- Hernia, hernial > cartilage, vertebra
- Incarceration, incarcerated > rupture
- Strangulation, strangulated > rupture
- Disease, diseased > disc, degenerative
- Hernia, hernial > with > incarceration
- Hernia, hernial > with > strangulation
- Disease, diseased > intervertebral disc
- Hernia, hernial > intestine, intestinal
- Rupture, ruptured > intervertebral disc
- Slipped, slipping > intervertebral disc
- Protrusion, protrusio > nucleus pulposus
- Degeneration, degenerative > disc disease
- Destruction, destructive > vertebral disc
- Prolapse, prolapsed > intervertebral disc
Showing 40 of 68 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M50.21 | Other cervical disc displacement, high cervical region | Valid |
| M50.22 | Other cervical disc displacement, mid-cervical region | Not billable |
| M50.23 | Other cervical disc displacement, cervicothoracic region | Valid |