M41.4

M41.4: Neuromuscular scoliosis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M41.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for neuromuscular scoliosis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Code also

Both codes may be needed to describe the encounter fully. Sequencing depends on the reason for the visit.

underlying condition

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Scoliosis secondary to cerebral palsy, Friedreich's ataxia, poliomyelitis and other neuromuscular disorders

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M41.4

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M41: Scoliosis

congenital scoliosis NOS (Q67.5)
congenital scoliosis due to bony malformation (Q76.3)
postural congenital scoliosis (Q67.5)
kyphoscoliotic heart disease (I27.1)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M41.4

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on M41: Scoliosis

postprocedural scoliosis (M96.89)
postradiation scoliosis (M96.5)

Other codes that can never be billed with M41.4

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

M40Kyphosis and lordosis

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead M41.4

8 child codes. Green means billable.