ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M53 Other and unspecified... › M53.9
Dorsopathy, unspecified
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 Dorsopathy, unspecified
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.
- Disorder > spine
- Disease, diseased > spine > joint
- Disease, diseased > joint > spine NEC
- Dorsopathy
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M53.0 | Cervicocranial syndrome | Valid |
| M53.1 | Cervicobrachial syndrome | Valid |
| M53.2 | Spinal instabilities | Not billable |
| M53.3 | Sacrococcygeal disorders, not elsewhere classified | Valid |
| M53.8 | Other specified dorsopathies | Not billable |