M46.8
M46.8: Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified inflammatory 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 M46.8
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 M46.8
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.80Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, site unspecified
- M46.81Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.82Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervical region
- M46.83Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, cervicothoracic region
- M46.84Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracic region
- M46.85Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, thoracolumbar region
- M46.86Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbar region
- M46.87Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, lumbosacral region
- M46.88Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.89Other specified inflammatory spondylopathies, multiple sites in spine