M43.5X
M43.5X: Other recurrent vertebral dislocation
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M43.5X is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other recurrent vertebral dislocation. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M43.5X
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on M43: Other deforming dorsopathies
- congenital spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis (Q76.2)
- hemivertebra (Q76.3-Q76.4)
- Klippel-Feil syndrome (Q76.1)
- lumbarization and sacralization (Q76.4)
- platyspondylisis (Q76.4)
- spina bifida occulta (Q76.0)
- spinal curvature in osteoporosis (M80.-)
- spinal curvature in Paget's disease of bone [osteitis deformans] (M88.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with M43.5X
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M47.1Other spondylosis with myelopathy
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 M43.5X
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- M43.5X2Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, cervical region
- M43.5X3Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, cervicothoracic region
- M43.5X4Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, thoracic region
- M43.5X5Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, thoracolumbar region
- M43.5X6Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, lumbar region
- M43.5X7Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, lumbosacral region
- M43.5X8Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M43.5X9Other recurrent vertebral dislocation, site unspecified