FY2025
Effective from
- Specificity changed
Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region
Category — select a more specific code
CDC/NCHS · FY2025For US diagnosis claims covered by HIPAA, ICD-10-CM is required from October 1, 2015.
Use the service date for outpatient/professional claims and the discharge date for hospital inpatient claims. Earlier encounters use ICD-9-CM; each individual code must also be valid for the applicable date.
Official coding guidelines → · CMS ↗First observed · 2015-10-01
Latest recorded change · FY2025
Effective from
Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region
Category — select a more specific code
CDC/NCHS · FY2025| All editions | Effective from | Code history |
|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 2015-10-01 | First observed |
| FY2017 | 2016-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2018 | 2017-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2019 | 2018-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2020 | 2019-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2020 · April | 2020-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2021 | 2020-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2021 · 01-01 | 2021-01-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2022 | 2021-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2022 · 04-01 | 2022-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2023 | 2022-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2023 · 04-01 | 2023-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2024 | 2023-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2024 · 04-01 | 2024-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2025 | 2024-10-01 | Specificity changed |
| FY2025 · 04-01 | 2025-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2026 | 2025-10-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2026 · April | 2026-04-01 | No tabular change |
| FY2027 | 2026-10-01 | No tabular change |
Historical mapping only; not an automatic code substitution.
The official Tabular List has no additional instructions at this code level.
Review the instructions inherited from its parent categories below. Inherited instructions ↓
Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
M51.370Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain onlyBillable / specificM51.371Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with lower extremity pain onlyBillable / specificM51.372Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain and lower extremity painBillable / specificM51.379Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region without mention of lumbar back pain or lower extremity painBillable / specificOther entries in the same category; these are not automatic substitutes.
| Code | Description | Category · further specificity required |
|---|---|---|
| M51.34 | Other intervertebral disc degeneration, thoracic region | Billable / specific |
| M51.35 | Other intervertebral disc degeneration, thoracolumbar region | Billable / specific |
| M51.36 | Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbar region | Category · further specificity required |
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