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ICD-10/M51.17

M51.17 ICD-10-CM Code: Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, lumbosacral region

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 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.

Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, lumbosacral region is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (M51.17).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for M51.17 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

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

  • lumbar radiculitis NOS (M54.16)
  • sciatica NOS (M54.3)
  • current injury - see injury of spine by body region
  • discitis NOS (M46.4-)

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

  • cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
  • sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to M51.17 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • M51.06 — Intervertebral disc disorders with myelopathy, lumbar region
  • M51.1 — Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy
  • M51.14 — Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, thoracic region
  • M51.15 — Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, thoracolumbar region
  • M51.16 — Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, lumbar region
  • M51.2 — Other thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc displacement
  • M51.24 — Other intervertebral disc displacement, thoracic region
  • M51.25 — Other intervertebral disc displacement, thoracolumbar region
  • M51.26 — Other intervertebral disc displacement, lumbar region
  • M51.27 — Other intervertebral disc displacement, lumbosacral region

View all codes in the M51 family

Indexed Clinical Terms (6)

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

  • Degeneration, degenerative, intervertebral disc, lumbosacral region, with, neuritis, radiculitis, radiculopathy or sciatica
  • Disease, diseased, intervertebral disc, lumbosacral (with), neuritis, radiculitis, radiculopathy or sciatica
  • Disorder (of), disc (intervertebral), with, radiculopathy, lumbosacral region
  • Displacement, displaced, intervertebral disc NEC, lumbosacral region, with, neuritis, radiculitis, radiculopathy or sciatica
  • Lumbago, lumbalgia, due to displacement, intervertebral disc, with sciatica
  • Lumbago, lumbalgia, with sciatica, due to intervertebral disc disorder