ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M54 Dorsalgia › M54.1
Radiculopathy
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 9 more specific codes instead:
- M54.10 Radiculopathy, site unspecified
- M54.11 Radiculopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M54.12 Radiculopathy, cervical region
- M54.13 Radiculopathy, cervicothoracic region
- M54.14 Radiculopathy, thoracic region
- M54.15 Radiculopathy, thoracolumbar region
- M54.16 Radiculopathy, lumbar region
- M54.17 Radiculopathy, lumbosacral region
- M54.18 Radiculopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
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 Radiculopathy
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 M54 Dorsalgia
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-)
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 > root
- Radiculitis
- Pain > radicular
- Pain > spinal root
- Neuritis > brachial
- Neuritis > nerve root
- Neuritis > spinal root
- Syndrome > radicular NEC
- Irritation > spinal > nerve > root NEC
- Neuropathy, neuropathic > radicular NEC
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Radiculopathy > leg
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M54.0 | Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back | Not billable |
| M54.2 | Cervicalgia | Valid |
| M54.3 | Sciatica | Not billable |
| M54.4 | Lumbago with sciatica | Not billable |
| M54.5 | Low back pain | Not billable |
| M54.6 | Pain in thoracic spine | Valid |
| M54.8 | Other dorsalgia | Not billable |
| M54.9 | Dorsalgia, unspecified | Valid |