Radiculopathy, thoracic region

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Radiculopathy, thoracic 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 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
Pain > root
Radiculitis
Pain > radicular
Pain > spinal root
Neuritis > brachial
Neuritis > nerve root
Neuritis > spinal root
Syndrome > radicular NEC
Syndrome > complex regional pain
Irritation > spinal > nerve > root NEC
Neuropathy, neuropathic > radicular NEC
Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
Neuritis > thoracic
Radiculopathy > thoracic region
Pain > thoracic spine > with radicular and visceral pain

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
M54.10	Radiculopathy, site unspecified	Valid
M54.11	Radiculopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region	Valid
M54.12	Radiculopathy, cervical region	Valid
M54.13	Radiculopathy, cervicothoracic region	Valid
M54.15	Radiculopathy, thoracolumbar region	Valid
M54.16	Radiculopathy, lumbar region	Valid
M54.17	Radiculopathy, lumbosacral region	Valid
M54.18	Radiculopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region	Valid