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M50.121
Billable

Cervical disc disorder at C4-C5 level with radiculopathy

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Inclusion Terms

2 items
  • C4-C5 disc disorder with radiculopathy
  • C5 radiculopathy due to disc disorder

Billable Code

M50.121 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 disorder with radiculopathy
cervical disorder with radiculopathy
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Cervical Disc Disorder with Radiculopathy

View documentation for cervical radiculopathy
cervical radiculopathy
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Cervical Radiculopathy

View documentation for cervical spine degenerative disc disease
cervical spine degenerative disc disease
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Cervical Spine Degenerative Disc Disease

View documentation for cervicalgia with radiculopathy
cervicalgia with radiculopathy
Primary
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Cervicalgia with Radiculopathy

View documentation for neck injury
neck injury
Primary
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Cervical Spine Injury

View documentation for upper extremity radiculopathy
upper extremity radiculopathy
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Radiculopathy of the Upper Extremity

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.

Includes

2 items

From M50:

  • cervicothoracic disc disorders with cervicalgia
  • cervicothoracic disc disorders

Excludes2

11 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)

From M50.1:

  • brachial radiculitis NOS (M54.13)

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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