M42.0
M42.0: Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M42.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for juvenile osteochondrosis of spine. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- postural kyphosis (M40.0)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Calvé's disease
- Scheuermann's disease
Other codes that can never be billed with M42.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M40.0Postural kyphosis
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 M42.0
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M42.00Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, site unspecified
- M42.01Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M42.02Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, cervical region
- M42.03Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, cervicothoracic region
- M42.04Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, thoracic region
- M42.05Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, thoracolumbar region
- M42.06Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, lumbar region
- M42.07Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, lumbosacral region
- M42.08Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M42.09Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine, multiple sites in spine