M50.022Billable
Cervical disc disorder at C5-C6 level with myelopathy
Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
Billable Code
M50.022 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
View documentation for cervical myelopathy
cervical myelopathy
View TemplatesCervical Myelopathy
View documentation for cervical myeloradiculopathy
cervical myeloradiculopathy
View TemplatesCervical Myeloradiculopathy
View documentation for cervical spine stenosis
cervical spine stenosis
View TemplatesCervical Spine Stenosis
View documentation for cervical stenosis with myelopathy
cervical stenosis with myelopathy
View TemplatesCervical Stenosis with Myelopathy
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.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
2 items
Includes
From M50:
- •cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
- •cervicothoracic disc disorders
Excludes2
10 items
Excludes2
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-)
- •
- •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)
Notes
1 item
Notes
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