M46.0
M46.0: Spinal enthesopathy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spinal enthesopathy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Disorder of ligamentous or muscular attachments of spine
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- G55Nerve root and plexus compressions in diseases classified elsewhere
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 M46.0
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.00Spinal enthesopathy, site unspecified
- M46.01Spinal enthesopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.02Spinal enthesopathy, cervical region
- M46.03Spinal enthesopathy, cervicothoracic region
- M46.04Spinal enthesopathy, thoracic region
- M46.05Spinal enthesopathy, thoracolumbar region
- M46.06Spinal enthesopathy, lumbar region
- M46.07Spinal enthesopathy, lumbosacral region
- M46.08Spinal enthesopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.09Spinal enthesopathy, multiple sites in spine