M53.2X
M53.2X: Spinal instabilities
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M53.2X is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for spinal instabilities. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M53.2X
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 M53.2X
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M53.2X1Spinal instabilities, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M53.2X2Spinal instabilities, cervical region
- M53.2X3Spinal instabilities, cervicothoracic region
- M53.2X4Spinal instabilities, thoracic region
- M53.2X5Spinal instabilities, thoracolumbar region
- M53.2X6Spinal instabilities, lumbar region
- M53.2X7Spinal instabilities, lumbosacral region
- M53.2X8Spinal instabilities, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
- M53.2X9Spinal instabilities, site unspecified