ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M54 Dorsalgia › M54.4
Lumbago with sciatica
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 3 more specific codes instead:
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 Lumbago with sciatica
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
- Ischialgia
- Pain > sciatic
- Cotugno disease
- Neuritis > sciatic
- Disease, diseased > Cotugno
- Kyphoscoliosis, kyphoscoliotic
- Syndrome > complex regional pain
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > nerve NEC
- Scoliosis > sciatic
- Rheumatism > sciatic
- Sciatica > with lumbago
- Lumbago, lumbalgia > with sciatica
- Pain > spine > low back > with sciatica
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| M54.0 | Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back | Not billable |
| M54.1 | Radiculopathy | Not billable |
| M54.2 | Cervicalgia | Valid |
| M54.3 | 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 |