ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
M46.4 Discitis, unspecified
Header codeNot billable: use one of the 10 billable codes below
About M46.4
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Coding notes for M46.4
No notes of its own.
Chapter 13 notes (apply to every code in it)
Note
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Codes under M46.4 10
- M46.40 Discitis, unspecified, site unspecifiedBillable
- M46.41 Discitis, unspecified, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M46.42 Discitis, unspecified, cervical regionBillable
- M46.43 Discitis, unspecified, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M46.44 Discitis, unspecified, thoracic regionBillable
- M46.45 Discitis, unspecified, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M46.46 Discitis, unspecified, lumbar regionBillable
- M46.47 Discitis, unspecified, lumbosacral regionBillable
- M46.48 Discitis, unspecified, sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable
- M46.49 Discitis, unspecified, multiple sites in spineBillable
Related codes in M46
- M46.0 Spinal enthesopathyHeader
- M46.1 Sacroiliitis, not elsewhere classifiedBillable
- M46.2 Osteomyelitis of vertebraHeader
- M46.3 Infection of intervertebral disc (pyogenic)Header
- M46.5 Other infective spondylopathiesHeader
- M46.8 Other specified inflammatory spondylopathiesHeader
- M46.9 Unspecified inflammatory spondylopathyHeader
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