Kissing spine
Non-billable header
M48.2 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
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)
Parent code
- M48Other spondylopathiesHeader
More specific codes M48.2
- M48.20Kissing spine, site unspecifiedBillable
- M48.21Kissing spine, occipito-atlanto-axial regionBillable
- M48.22Kissing spine, cervical regionBillable
- M48.23Kissing spine, cervicothoracic regionBillable
- M48.24Kissing spine, thoracic regionBillable
- M48.25Kissing spine, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M48.26Kissing spine, lumbar regionBillable
- M48.27Kissing spine, lumbosacral regionBillable