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.
Risk adjustment
M48.06 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead M48.06
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M48.0. If M48.06 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about M48.06
- Is M48.06 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M48.06 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M48.06 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Spondylopathies (M45-M49).