M45.A
M45.A — Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M45.A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
M45.A does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead M45.A
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M45.A0Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of unspecified sites in spine
- M45.A1Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M45.A2Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of cervical region
- M45.A3Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of cervicothoracic region
- M45.A4Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of thoracic region
- M45.A5Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of thoracolumbar region
- M45.A6Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of lumbar region
- M45.A7Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of lumbosacral region
- M45.A8Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M45.ABNon-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis of multiple sites in spine
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M45. If M45.A is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- M45.0Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine
- M45.1Ankylosing spondylitis of occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M45.2Ankylosing spondylitis of cervical region
- M45.3Ankylosing spondylitis of cervicothoracic region
- M45.4Ankylosing spondylitis of thoracic region
- M45.5Ankylosing spondylitis of thoracolumbar region
- M45.6Ankylosing spondylitis lumbar region
- M45.7Ankylosing spondylitis of lumbosacral region
- M45.8Ankylosing spondylitis sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M45.9Ankylosing spondylitis of unspecified sites in spine
Questions about M45.A
- Is M45.A a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M45.A is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M45.A sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Spondylopathies (M45-M49).