M46.9
M46.9: Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M46.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M46.9
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 M46.9
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M46.90Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, site unspecified
- M46.91Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M46.92Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, cervical region
- M46.93Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, cervicothoracic region
- M46.94Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, thoracic region
- M46.95Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, thoracolumbar region
- M46.96Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, lumbar region
- M46.97Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, lumbosacral region
- M46.98Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M46.99Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathy, multiple sites in spine