Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral 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 8 more specific codes instead:

M51.0 Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with myelopathy (also a header)
M51.1 Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy (also a header)
M51.2 Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacement (also a header)
M51.3 Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc degeneration (also a header)
M51.4 Schmorl's nodes (also a header)
M51.8 Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders (also a header)
M51.9 Unspecified thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorder
M51.A Other lumbar and lumbosacral annulus fibrosus disc defects (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 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral 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

Excludes2 - not included here

cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)

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-)