M46.3
M46.3: Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic)
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic). It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.3
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 M46.3
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.30Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), site unspecified
- M46.31Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.32Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), cervical region
- M46.33Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), cervicothoracic region
- M46.34Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), thoracic region
- M46.35Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), thoracolumbar region
- M46.36Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), lumbar region
- M46.37Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), lumbosacral region
- M46.38Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.39Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic), multiple sites in spine