M43.8
M43.8: Other specified deforming dorsopathies
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M43.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified deforming dorsopathies. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M43.8
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.-)
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Angulation›sacrum(acquired)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead M43.8
1 child code. Green means billable.