ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M54.1 Radiculopathy › M54.15
Radiculopathy, thoracolumbar region
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 Radiculopathy, thoracolumbar 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 > 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 > thoracolumbar region
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 |
| M54.14 | Radiculopathy, thoracic region | Valid |
| M54.16 | Radiculopathy, lumbar region | Valid |
| M54.17 | Radiculopathy, lumbosacral region | Valid |
| M54.18 | Radiculopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region | Valid |