M48.2
M48.2: Kissing spine
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M48.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for kissing spine. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M48.2
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 M48.2
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- M48.20Kissing spine, site unspecified
- M48.21Kissing spine, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M48.22Kissing spine, cervical region
- M48.23Kissing spine, cervicothoracic region
- M48.24Kissing spine, thoracic region
- M48.25Kissing spine, thoracolumbar region
- M48.26Kissing spine, lumbar region
- M48.27Kissing spine, lumbosacral region