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M48.50

Non-billable

Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Additional Information

From parent codes: M00-M99 (Chapter 13)

Excludes 2 — Not Included HereFrom M00-M99

Excludes2 means 'NOT INCLUDED HERE!' An Excludes2 note indicates that the condition excluded is not part of the condition represented by the code, but a patient may have both conditions at the same time.

  • 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 M00-M99

Additional notes from parent codes that apply to this code.

  • 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 (13)

M48.5Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified→M48.51Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region→M48.52Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervical region→M48.53Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervicothoracic region→M48.54Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracic region→M48.55Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region→M48.56Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbar region→M48.57Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbosacral region→M48.58Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region→M48.50XACollapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified (initial encounter for fracture)→M48.50XDCollapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified (subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing)→M48.50XGCollapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified (subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing)→M48.50XSCollapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified (sequela of fracture)→