Fusion of spine
Non-billable header
M43.2 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Ankylosis of spinal joint
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.
- ankylosing spondylitis (M45.0-)
- congenital fusion of spine (Q76.4)
- 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.
- arthrodesis status (Z98.1)
- pseudoarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)
- 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)
Also known as
- Ankylosis of spinal joint
Parent code
- M43Other deforming dorsopathiesHeader
More specific codes M43.2
- M43.20Fusion of spine, site unspecifiedBillable
- M43.21Fusion of spine, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M43.22Fusion of spine, cervical regionBillable
- M43.23Fusion of spine, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M43.24Fusion of spine, thoracic regionBillable
- M43.25Fusion of spine, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M43.26Fusion of spine, lumbar regionBillable
- M43.27Fusion of spine, lumbosacral regionBillable
- M43.28Fusion of spine, sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable
Related codes
- M43.0SpondylolysisHeader
- M43.1SpondylolisthesisHeader
- M43.3Recurrent atlantoaxial dislocation with myelopathyBillable
- M43.4Other recurrent atlantoaxial dislocationBillable
- M43.5Other recurrent vertebral dislocationHeader
- M43.6TorticollisBillable
- M43.8Other specified deforming dorsopathiesHeader
- M43.9Deforming dorsopathy, unspecifiedBillable