M41.5
M41.5: Other secondary scoliosis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M41.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other secondary scoliosis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Code first
The underlying condition must be sequenced before this code.
- underlying disease
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M41.5
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M41.5
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with M41.5
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 M41.5
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- M41.50Other secondary scoliosis, site unspecified
- M41.52Other secondary scoliosis, cervical region
- M41.53Other secondary scoliosis, cervicothoracic region
- M41.54Other secondary scoliosis, thoracic region
- M41.55Other secondary scoliosis, thoracolumbar region
- M41.56Other secondary scoliosis, lumbar region
- M41.57Other secondary scoliosis, lumbosacral region