M47.81
M47.81: Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M47.81 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M47.81
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- G54Nerve root and plexus disorders
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 M47.81
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M47.811Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M47.812Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, cervical region
- M47.813Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, cervicothoracic region
- M47.814Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, thoracic region
- M47.815Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, thoracolumbar region
- M47.816Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, lumbar region
- M47.817Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, lumbosacral region
- M47.818Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M47.819Spondylosis without myelopathy or radiculopathy, site unspecified