Spinal stenosis
Non-billable header
M48.0 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Caudal stenosis
Includes (from M48)
- Note: Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M48)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M48)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M48)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M48)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M48)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M48)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M48)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M48)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M48)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M48)
Also known as
- Caudal stenosis
Parent code
- M48Other spondylopathiesHeader
More specific codes M48.0
- M48.00Spinal stenosis, site unspecifiedBillable
- M48.01Spinal stenosis, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M48.02Spinal stenosis, cervical regionBillable
- M48.03Spinal stenosis, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M48.04Spinal stenosis, thoracic regionBillable
- M48.05Spinal stenosis, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M48.06Spinal stenosis, lumbar regionHeader
- M48.07Spinal stenosis, lumbosacral regionBillable
- M48.08Spinal stenosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable