Spondylolysis, cervical region
Billable / specific
M43.02 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from M43)
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
- congenital spondylolysis (Q76.2) (from M43.0)
- spondylolisthesis (M43.1) (from M43.0)
- congenital spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis (Q76.2) (from M43)
- hemivertebra (Q76.3-Q76.4) (from M43)
- Klippel-Feil syndrome (Q76.1) (from M43)
- lumbarization and sacralization (Q76.4) (from M43)
- platyspondylisis (Q76.4) (from M43)
- spina bifida occulta (Q76.0) (from M43)
- spinal curvature in osteoporosis (M80.-) (from M43)
- spinal curvature in Paget's disease of bone [osteitis deformans] (M88.-) (from M43)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M43)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M43)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M43)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M43)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M43)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M43)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M43)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M43)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M43)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M43)
Parent code
- M43.0SpondylolysisHeader
Related codes
- M43.00Spondylolysis, site unspecifiedBillable
- M43.01Spondylolysis, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M43.03Spondylolysis, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M43.04Spondylolysis, thoracic regionBillable
- M43.05Spondylolysis, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M43.06Spondylolysis, lumbar regionBillable
- M43.07Spondylolysis, lumbosacral regionBillable
- M43.08Spondylolysis, sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable
- M43.09Spondylolysis, multiple sites in spineBillable