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M54.51
Billable

Vertebrogenic low back pain

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Inclusion Terms

1 item
  • Low back vertebral endplate pain

Billable Code

M54.51 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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Acute Low Back Pain

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Chronic Low Back Pain

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Chronic Lower Back Pain

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Chronic Lumbar Pain

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Late Effect of Costovertebral Angle Injury

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Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease

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Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease

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Spinal Disorders with Physician Documentation

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Vertebrogenic Low Back Pain

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

6 items

From M54:

  • psychogenic dorsalgia (F45.41)

From M54.5:

  • 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-)

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)

Notes

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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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