M53.2X8 ICD-10-CM Code: Spinal instabilities, sacral and sacrococcygeal 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
Spinal instabilities, sacral and sacrococcygeal region is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (M53.2X8).
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for M53.2X8 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.
- current injury - see injury of spine by body region
- discitis NOS (M46.4-)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to M53.2X8 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- M53.2X3 — Spinal instabilities, cervicothoracic region
- M53.2X4 — Spinal instabilities, thoracic region
- M53.2X5 — Spinal instabilities, thoracolumbar region
- M53.2X6 — Spinal instabilities, lumbar region
- M53.2X7 — Spinal instabilities, lumbosacral region
- M53.2X9 — Spinal instabilities, site unspecified
- M53.3 — Sacrococcygeal disorders, not elsewhere classified
- M53.8 — Other specified dorsopathies
- M53.80 — Other specified dorsopathies, site unspecified
- M53.81 — Other specified dorsopathies, occipito-atlanto-axial region