M53.8
M53.8: Other specified dorsopathies
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
M53.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified dorsopathies. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with M53.8
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 M53.8
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- M53.80Other specified dorsopathies, site unspecified
- M53.81Other specified dorsopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region
- M53.82Other specified dorsopathies, cervical region
- M53.83Other specified dorsopathies, cervicothoracic region
- M53.84Other specified dorsopathies, thoracic region
- M53.85Other specified dorsopathies, thoracolumbar region
- M53.86Other specified dorsopathies, lumbar region
- M53.87Other specified dorsopathies, lumbosacral region
- M53.88Other specified dorsopathies, sacral and sacrococcygeal region