M50.1 — Cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy
M50.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
- brachial radiculitis NOS (M54.13)
Other codes that can never be billed with M50.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at M50.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading M50.1 alone.
Risk adjustment
M50.1 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 M50.1
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share M50. If M50.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about M50.1
- Is M50.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. M50.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does M50.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99), in the block Other dorsopathies (M50-M54).