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M50 - Cervical disc disorders

ICD-10-CM Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue · M50-M54 Other dorsopathies (M50-M54) · Top-level category · FY2027

Coding Guidance

M50 is a non-billable heading. Report one of the 6 more specific codes below.

Includes, Excludes and Coding Notes

IncludesFrom M50

Conditions this code covers.

  • cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
  • cervicothoracic disc disorders
Excludes 1 — Not Coded HereFrom M50-M54 Other dorsopathies (M50-M54)

Mutually exclusive: these conditions are never reported together with this code.

  • current injury - see injury of spine by body region
  • discitis NOS (M46.4-)
Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom Chapter M00-M99

Not part of this code; report both codes when the patient has both conditions.

  • 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)
NotesFrom Chapter M00-M99

Instructional notes from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.

  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition

More Specific Codes (6)

M50.0Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy→M50.1Cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy→M50.2Other cervical disc displacement→M50.3Other cervical disc degeneration→M50.8Other cervical disc disorders→M50.9Cervical disc disorder, unspecified→

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