ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M51.2 Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and... › M51.25
Other intervertebral disc displacement, 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 Other intervertebral disc displacement, 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 M51 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
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-)
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
- 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
- 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
- Hernia, hernial > with > incarceration
- Hernia, hernial > with > strangulation
- Hernia, hernial > intestine, intestinal
- Rupture, ruptured > intervertebral disc
- Slipped, slipping > intervertebral disc
- Protrusion, protrusio > nucleus pulposus
- Prolapse, prolapsed > intervertebral disc
- Protrusion, protrusio > intervertebral disc
- Hernia, hernial > irreducible > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > obstructive > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > incarcerated > with gangrene
- Hernia, hernial > strangulated > with gangrene
- Rupture, ruptured > nontraumatic, meaning hernia
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Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M51.24 | Other intervertebral disc displacement, thoracic region | Valid |
| M51.26 | Other intervertebral disc displacement, lumbar region | Valid |
| M51.27 | Other intervertebral disc displacement, lumbosacral region | Valid |