ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M53 Other and unspecified... › M53.3
Sacrococcygeal disorders, not elsewhere classified
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 Sacrococcygeal disorders, not elsewhere classified
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 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.
- Pain
- Herniation
- Ischialgia
- Pain > root
- Radiculitis
- Pain > sciatic
- Cotugno disease
- Sarcoepiplocele
- Pain > radicular
- Neuritis > sciatic
- Pain > spinal root
- Neuritis > brachial
- Sequestration > disc
- Neuritis > nerve root
- Neuritis > spinal root
- Rupture, ruptured > disc
- Syndrome > radicular NEC
- Prolapse, prolapsed > disc
- Disease, diseased > Cotugno
- Disease, diseased > Schmorl's
- 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
- Syndrome > complex regional pain
- 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
Showing 40 of 115 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M53.0 | Cervicocranial syndrome | Valid |
| M53.1 | Cervicobrachial syndrome | Valid |
| M53.2 | Spinal instabilities | Not billable |
| M53.8 | Other specified dorsopathies | Not billable |
| M53.9 | Dorsopathy, unspecified | Valid |