M43.8X

M43.8X: Other specified deforming dorsopathies

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M43.8X 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.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M43.8X

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.-)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M43.8X

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

Written on M43.8: Other specified deforming dorsopathies

kyphosis and lordosis (M40.-)
scoliosis (M41.-)

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 M43.8X

9 child codes. Green means billable.