2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

M49 Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere

  • Non-billable
  • 2016–2025

M49 is a non-billable/non-specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Spondylopathies in diseases classified elsewhere.

Includes

  • Curvature of spine in diseases classified elsewhere

  • Deformity of spine in diseases classified elsewhere

  • Kyphosis in diseases classified elsewhere

  • Scoliosis in diseases classified elsewhere

  • Spondylopathy in diseases classified elsewhere

Code first

  • Underlying disease, such as:

    • Brucellosis (A23.-)

    • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (G60.0)

    • Enterobacterial infections (A01-A04)

    • Osteitis fibrosa cystica (E21.0)

Type 1 excludes

  • Curvature of spine in tuberculosis [Pott's] (A18.01)

  • Enteropathic arthropathies (M07.-)

  • Gonococcal spondylitis (A54.41)

  • Neuropathic [tabes dorsalis] spondylitis (A52.11)

  • Neuropathic spondylopathy in syringomyelia (G95.0)

  • Neuropathic spondylopathy in tabes dorsalis (A52.11)

  • Nonsyphilitic neuropathic spondylopathy NEC (G98.0)

  • Spondylitis in syphilis (acquired) (A52.77)

  • Tuberculous spondylitis (A18.01)

  • Typhoid fever spondylitis (A01.05)

Codes

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code