M46.2
M46.2: Osteomyelitis of vertebra
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for osteomyelitis of vertebra. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.2
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 M46.2
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.20Osteomyelitis of vertebra, site unspecified
- M46.21Osteomyelitis of vertebra, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.22Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervical region
- M46.23Osteomyelitis of vertebra, cervicothoracic region
- M46.24Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracic region
- M46.25Osteomyelitis of vertebra, thoracolumbar region
- M46.26Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbar region
- M46.27Osteomyelitis of vertebra, lumbosacral region
- M46.28Osteomyelitis of vertebra, sacral and sacrococcygeal region