M48.3
M48.3: Traumatic spondylopathy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
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
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 M48.3
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