ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
M54.04 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, thoracic region
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Coding notes for M54.04
No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.
Also applies, from M54.0 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
Also applies, from M54 Dorsalgia
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41)
Block M50-M54 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
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)
Related codes in M54.0
- M54.00 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, site unspecifiedBillable
- M54.01 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M54.02 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, cervical regionBillable
- M54.03 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M54.05 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M54.06 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, lumbar regionBillable
- M54.07 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, lumbosacral regionBillable
- M54.08 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable
- M54.09 Panniculitis affecting regions, neck and back, multiple sites in spineBillable
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