M49.8
M49.8: Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M49.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M49.8
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on M49: Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere
- curvature of spine in tuberculosis [Pott's] (A18.01)
- enteropathic arthropathies (M07.-)
- gonococcal spondylitis (A54.41)
- neuropathic [tabes dorsalis] spondylitis (A52.11)
- neuropathic spondylopathy in syringomyelia (G95.0)
- neuropathic spondylopathy in tabes dorsalis (A52.11)
- nonsyphilitic neuropathic spondylopathy NEC (G98.0)
- spondylitis in syphilis (acquired) (A52.77)
- tuberculous spondylitis (A18.01)
- typhoid fever spondylitis (A01.05)
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 M49.8
10 child codes. Green means billable.
- M49.80Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, site unspecified
- M49.81Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M49.82Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervical region
- M49.83Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, cervicothoracic region
- M49.84Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracic region
- M49.85Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, thoracolumbar region
- M49.86Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbar region
- M49.87Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, lumbosacral region
- M49.88Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M49.89Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere, multiple sites in spine