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intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain only (M51.370) low back strain (S39.012) lumbago due to intervertebral disc displacement (M51.2 -) lumbago with sciatica (M54.4 -) M54. Excludes1: psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41) M54.5 Low back pain. M54.50. Low back pain, unspecified.
ICD-10. ICD-10-CM Codes. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Dorsopathies. Other dorsopathies. Dorsalgia (M54) Low back pain, unspecified (M54.50) M54.5.
Let Your Fingers do the Walking. You find M54 in the Tabular List in ICD-10-CM and find M54.5 Low back pain. However, this code requires a fifth character. Your choices are as follows: M54.50 Low back pain, unspecified. This diagnosis code includes loin pain and lumbago not otherwise specified (NOS).
Coding alert 1: “From an ICD-10-CM perspective, lower back pain and strain are mutually exclusive diagnoses, as there is an Excludes1 note under M54.5 directing coders to S39.012- for low back strain,” cautions Moore. Scenario 3: Your provider documents that a patient has chronic lower back pain due to surgery or trauma.
If the patient’s back pain is a result of an injury or the side effect of an invasive medical procedure, code assignment will then be subject to ICD-10 guideline I.C.13.b., which states that recurrent bone, joint, or muscle conditions, including those that are the result of a healed injury, are usually found in Chapter 13, Diseases of the ...
ICD-10. ICD-10-CM Codes. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. Dorsopathies. Other dorsopathies. Dorsalgia (M54) Vertebrogenic low back pain (M54.51) M54.50.
Finally, ICD-10 also converted M51.37 (Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region) to parent for 2025. When this code starts requiring a 6th character, these will be your options: M51.370 (Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain only) M51.371 (Other intervertebral disc degeneration ...
Per ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines (section I.C.6), you “may use codes from category G89 with codes that identify the site of pain (including codes from chapter 18) if the category G89 code provides additional information. For example, if the code describes the site of the pain, but does not fully describe whether the pain is acute or chronic ...
Get crucial instructions for accurate ICD-10-CM M54.4 coding with all applicable Excludes 1 and Excludes 2 notes from the section level conveniently shown with each code. This section shows you chapter-specific coding guidelines to increase your understanding and correct usage of the target ICD-10-CM Volume 1 code.
To code for flank pain, start by looking at the ICD-10-CM index. Under the entry for “Pain, flank,” the ICD-10-CM index points you to “Pain, abdominal.”. And that instruction opens up a lot of possibilities. Next to the entry for “Pain, abdominal,” there is the code R10.9 Unspecified abdominal pain. If “flank pain” is all you ...