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M54

Dorsalgia

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 9 more specific codes instead:

  • M54.0 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back (also a header)
  • M54.1 Radiculopathy (also a header)
  • M54.2 Cervicalgia
  • M54.3 Sciatica (also a header)
  • M54.4 Lumbago with sciatica (also a header)
  • M54.5 Low back pain (also a header)
  • M54.6 Pain in thoracic spine
  • M54.8 Other dorsalgia (also a header)
  • M54.9 Dorsalgia, unspecified

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Dorsalgia

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

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41)

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-)