M48.0
M48.0: Spinal stenosis
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M48.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spinal stenosis. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Caudal stenosis
Other codes that can never be billed with M48.0
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 M48.0
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M48.00Spinal stenosis, site unspecified
- M48.01Spinal stenosis, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M48.02Spinal stenosis, cervical region
- M48.03Spinal stenosis, cervicothoracic region
- M48.04Spinal stenosis, thoracic region
- M48.05Spinal stenosis, thoracolumbar region
- M48.06Spinal stenosis, lumbar region
- M48.07Spinal stenosis, lumbosacral region
- M48.08Spinal stenosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region