Low back pain
Non-billable header
M54.5 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from M54)
- 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.
- intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbar region with discogenic back pain only (M51.360)
- intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain only (M51.370)
- low back strain (S39.012)
- lumbago due to intervertebral disc displacement (M51.2-)
- lumbago with sciatica (M54.4-)
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region (from M54)
- discitis NOS (M46.4-) (from M54)
- psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41) (from M54)
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-) (from M54)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from M54)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from M54)
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-) (from M54)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from M54)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from M54)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from M54)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from M54)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from M54)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from M54)