M46.5
M46.5: Other infective spondylopathies
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other infective spondylopathies. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.5
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 M46.5
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.50Other infective spondylopathies, site unspecified
- M46.51Other infective spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.52Other infective spondylopathies, cervical region
- M46.53Other infective spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region
- M46.54Other infective spondylopathies, thoracic region
- M46.55Other infective spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region
- M46.56Other infective spondylopathies, lumbar region
- M46.57Other infective spondylopathies, lumbosacral region
- M46.58Other infective spondylopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.59Other infective spondylopathies, multiple sites in spine