ICD-10-CM › M00-M99 › M50-M54 › M54.5 Low back pain › M54.59

M54.59

Other low back pain

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2022 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2022 to now.

  1. FY2022 Added to the code set Other low back pain

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
M54.50 Low back pain, unspecified Valid
M54.51 Vertebrogenic low back pain Valid