M48.3 — Traumatic spondylopathy
M48.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for traumatic spondylopathy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M48.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at M48.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading M48.3 alone.
- G55Nerve root and plexus compressions in diseases classified elsewhere
Risk adjustment
M48.3 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 history
M48.3 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead M48.3
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M48.30Traumatic spondylopathy, site unspecified
- M48.31Traumatic spondylopathy, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M48.32Traumatic spondylopathy, cervical region
- M48.33Traumatic spondylopathy, cervicothoracic region
- M48.34Traumatic spondylopathy, thoracic region
- M48.35Traumatic spondylopathy, thoracolumbar region
- M48.36Traumatic spondylopathy, lumbar region
- M48.37Traumatic spondylopathy, lumbosacral region
- M48.38Traumatic spondylopathy, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M48. If M48.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M48.3
- Is M48.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M48.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M48.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Spondylopathies (M45-M49).