M51.2

M51.2: Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacement

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M51.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacement. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Lumbago due to displacement of intervertebral disc

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M51.2

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on M51: Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders

cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)

Other codes that can never be billed with M51.2

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

M54.5Low back pain
M54.6Pain in thoracic spine
S23.0Traumatic rupture of thoracic intervertebral disc
S23.0XXATraumatic rupture of thoracic intervertebral disc, initial encounter
S23.0XXDTraumatic rupture of thoracic intervertebral disc, subsequent encounter
S23.0XXSTraumatic rupture of thoracic intervertebral disc, sequela
S33Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments of lumbar spine and pelvis
S33.0Traumatic rupture of lumbar intervertebral disc

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 M51.2

4 child codes. Green means billable.