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M40.04
Billable

Postural kyphosis, thoracic region

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Billable Code

M40.04 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

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thoracic kyphosis
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Kyphosis, Thoracic Region

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Excludes1

4 items

From M40:

  • congenital kyphosis and lordosis (Q76.4)
  • kyphoscoliosis (M41.-)
  • postprocedural kyphosis and lordosis (M96.-)

From M40.0:

  • osteochondrosis of spine (M42.-)

Excludes2

10 items

From M00-M99:

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Code First

1 item

From M40:

  • underlying disease

Notes

1 item

From M00-M99:

  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
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