M46.4
M46.4: Discitis, unspecified
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for discitis, unspecified. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.4
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 M46.4
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.40Discitis, unspecified, site unspecified
- M46.41Discitis, unspecified, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.42Discitis, unspecified, cervical region
- M46.43Discitis, unspecified, cervicothoracic region
- M46.44Discitis, unspecified, thoracic region
- M46.45Discitis, unspecified, thoracolumbar region
- M46.46Discitis, unspecified, lumbar region
- M46.47Discitis, unspecified, lumbosacral region
- M46.48Discitis, unspecified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.49Discitis, unspecified, multiple sites in spine