M48.5
Non-Billable (Header)Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified
Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together
- 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-)
- traumatic fracture of vertebra (S12.-, S22.-, S32.-)
Child Codes
M48.50Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, site unspecified
M48.51Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, occipito-atlanto-axial region
M48.52Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervical region
M48.53Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, cervicothoracic region
M48.54Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracic region
M48.55Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, thoracolumbar region
M48.56Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbar region
M48.57Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, lumbosacral region
M48.58Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
Code Hierarchy
└M48Other spondylopathies└M48.5Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified
└M48.5Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified