M48.5 is a non-billable/non-specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified.
Inclusion term
Collapsed vertebra NOS
Compression fracture of vertebra NOS
Wedging of vertebra NOS
Type 1 excludes
Current injury - see Injury of spine, by body region
Fatigue fracture of vertebra (M48.4)
Pathological fracture of vertebra due to neoplasm (M84.58)
Pathological fracture of vertebra due to other diagnosis (M84.68)
Pathological fracture of vertebra due to osteoporosis (M80.-)
Pathological fracture NOS (M84.4-)
Stress fracture of vertebra (M48.4-)
Seventh character note
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from subcategory M48.5:
Seventh character extensions
A: initial encounter for fracture
D: subsequent encounter for fracture with routine healing
G: subsequent encounter for fracture with delayed healing
S: sequela of fracture
Codes
M48.50
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified
M48.51
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region
M48.52
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervical region
M48.53
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervicothoracic region
M48.54
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracic region
M48.55
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region
M48.56
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbar region
M48.57
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbosacral region
M48.58
Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
Versions
2025
No changes
2024
No changes
2023
No changes
2022
No changes
2021
No changes
2020
No changes
2019
No changes
2018
No changes
2017
Code changed
Inclusion term
Collapsed vertebra NOSWedging of vertebra NOS
- Collapsed vertebra NOS
- Compression fracture of vertebra NOS
- Wedging of vertebra NOS
2016
New code