Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

MS-DRG 456 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITH MCC (MDC 08)
MS-DRG 457 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITH CC (MDC 08)
MS-DRG 458 — SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 08)
MS-DRG 551 — MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITH MCC (MDC 08)
MS-DRG 552 — MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 08)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Other idiopathic scoliosis, thoracic region is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (M41.24).

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for M41.24 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Conditions the official ICD-10-CM tabular list includes under this code.

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to M41.24 in its code family, with their registry titles.

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.