1. ICD.Codes
2. ICD-10-CM (2016)
3. Chapter 13
4. Section M50-M54

ICD-10-CM Section M50-M54
Other dorsopathies

Coding Notes for Section M50-M54

Section Notes:

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

Section Type-2 Excludes:

Type-2 Excludes

Type-2 Excludes means the excluded conditions are different, although they may appear similar. A patient may have both conditions, but one does not include the other. Excludes 2 means "not coded here."

Arthropathic psoriasis - instead, use code L40.5-

Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period - instead, use Section P04-P96

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases - instead, use Section A00-B99

Compartment syndrome (traumatic) - instead, use code T79.A-

Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium - instead, use Section O00-O9A

Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities - instead, use Section Q00-Q99

Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases - instead, use Section E00-E88

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes - instead, use Section S00-T88

Neoplasms - instead, use Section C00-D49

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified - instead, use Section R00-R94