ICD-10-CM Codes
M00-M99
M50-M54
M50-
2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M50

2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M50

Cervical disc disorders

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Non-Billable/Non-Specific Code

M50 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are multiple codes below it that contain a greater level of detail.
The 2023 edition of ICD-10-CM M50 became effective on October 1, 2022.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of M50 - other international versions of ICD-10 M50 may differ.

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cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
cervicothoracic disc disorders

The following code(s) above M50 contain annotation back-references

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Code Also annotations, or
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that may be applicable to M50:

M00-M99
2023 ICD-10-CM Range M00-M99
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Note
- Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Type 2 Excludes
- 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)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
M50-M54
2023 ICD-10-CM Range M50-M54
Other dorsopathies
Type 1 Excludes
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
Other dorsopathies

Code History

2016 (effective 10/1/2015): New code (first year of non-draft ICD-10-CM)
2017 (effective 10/1/2016): No change
2018 (effective 10/1/2017): No change
2019 (effective 10/1/2018): No change
2020 (effective 10/1/2019): No change
2021 (effective 10/1/2020): No change
2022 (effective 10/1/2021): No change
2023 (effective 10/1/2022): No change

Code annotations containing back-references to M50:

Type 1 Excludes: S13.0
, M54.2

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code S13.0
Traumatic rupture of cervical intervertebral disc
Type 1 Excludes
- rupture or displacement (nontraumatic) of cervical intervertebral disc NOS (M50.-)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M54.2
Cervicalgia
Type 1 Excludes
- cervicalgia due to intervertebral cervical disc disorder (M50.-)
Type 2 Excludes: M51
, M53.1

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M51
Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
Type 2 Excludes
- cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
- sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M53.1
Cervicobrachial syndrome
Type 2 Excludes
- cervical disc disorder (M50.-)
- thoracic outlet syndrome (G54.0)

ICD-10-CM Codes Adjacent To M50

M49.80 …… site unspecified

M49.81 …… occipito-atlanto-axial region

M49.82 …… cervical region

M49.83 …… cervicothoracic region

M49.84 …… thoracic region

M49.85 …… thoracolumbar region

M49.86 …… lumbar region

M49.87 …… lumbosacral region

M49.88 …… sacral and sacrococcygeal region

M49.89 …… multiple sites in spine

M50 Cervical disc disorders

M50.0 Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy

M50.00 …… unspecified cervical region

M50.01 …… high cervical region

M50.02 Cervical disc disorder with myelopathy, mid-cervical region

M50.020 …… unspecified level

M50.021 Cervical disc disorder at C4-C5 level with myelopathy

M50.022 Cervical disc disorder at C5-C6 level with myelopathy

M50.023 Cervical disc disorder at C6-C7 level with myelopathy

M50.03 …… cervicothoracic region

M50.1 Cervical disc disorder with radiculopathy

Reimbursement claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015 require the use of ICD-10-CM codes.

2023 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M50

Cervical disc disorders

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Other dorsopathies

Traumatic rupture of cervical intervertebral disc

Cervicalgia

Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders

Cervicobrachial syndrome