ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M50.9 Cervical disc disorder, unspecified › M50.90
Cervical disc disorder, unspecified, 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 Cervical disc disorder, unspecified, 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.
- Sequestration > disc
- Prolapse, prolapsed > disc
- Syndrome > cervical > disc
- Herniation > nucleus pulposus
- Disease, diseased > discogenic
- Extrusion > intervertebral disc
- Hernia, hernial > nucleus pulposus
- Disease, diseased > nucleus pulposus
- Dislocation > vertebra > nontraumatic
- Hernia, hernial > cartilage, vertebra
- Disease, diseased > disc, degenerative
- Disease, diseased > intervertebral disc
- Rupture, ruptured > intervertebral disc
- Slipped, slipping > intervertebral disc
- Protrusion, protrusio > nucleus pulposus
- Degeneration, degenerative > disc disease
- Destruction, destructive > vertebral disc
- Prolapse, prolapsed > intervertebral disc
- Protrusion, protrusio > intervertebral disc
- Disease, diseased > vertebra, vertebral > disc
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Hernia, hernial > intervertebral cartilage or disc
- Defect, defective > intervertebral annular fibrosis
- Neuritis > brachial > due to displacement, intervertebral disc
- Disease, diseased > intervertebral disc > cervical, cervicothoracic
- Disease, diseased > intervertebral disc > cervical, cervicothoracic > with > myelopathy
- Displacement, displaced > intervertebral disc NEC > cervical, cervicothoracic > myelopathy
- Degeneration, degenerative > intervertebral disc > cervical, cervicothoracic > with > myelopathy
- Disease, diseased > intervertebral disc > cervical, cervicothoracic > with > neuritis, radiculitis or radiculopathy
- Displacement, displaced > intervertebral disc NEC > cervical, cervicothoracic > neuritis, radiculitis or radiculopathy
- Degeneration, degenerative > intervertebral disc > cervical, cervicothoracic > with > neuritis, radiculitis or radiculopathy
- Disorder > disc > cervical
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M50.91 | Cervical disc disorder, unspecified, high cervical region | Valid |
| M50.92 | Cervical disc disorder, unspecified, mid-cervical region | Not billable |
| M50.93 | Cervical disc disorder, unspecified, cervicothoracic region | Valid |