Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier]
Non-billable header
M48.1 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis [DISH]
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
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis [DISH]
Parent code
- M48Other spondylopathiesHeader
More specific codes M48.1
- M48.10Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], site unspecifiedBillable
- M48.11Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M48.12Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], cervical regionBillable
- M48.13Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M48.14Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], thoracic regionBillable
- M48.15Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M48.16Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], lumbar regionBillable
- M48.17Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], lumbosacral regionBillable
- M48.18Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], sacral and sacrococcygeal regionBillable
- M48.19Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier], multiple sites in spineBillable