M48.06
M48.06: Spinal stenosis, lumbar region
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M48.06 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spinal stenosis, lumbar region. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M48.06
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 M48.06
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under M48.0
- 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
- M48.07Spinal stenosis, lumbosacral region
- M48.08Spinal stenosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region