Medical Code Search: "Lumbago with sciatica"
Results for “Lumbago with sciatica” from ICD-10-CM. Code titles and billable status are read from the published releases.
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- Lumbago with sciatica
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Best matches
Under M54 Dorsalgia
Exact title · The official description is the searched wording
Why this matched
- The official description is the searched wording.
- The official description is the searched wording
- Sits under M54 Dorsalgia in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at subcategory level.
- 3 codes below, all billable in the tabular hierarchy.
3 codes below, all billable
- M54.40Lumbago with sciatica, unspecified sideBillable
- M54.41Lumbago with sciatica, right sideBillable
- M54.42Lumbago with sciatica, left sideBillable
Under M54 Dorsalgia
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under M54 Dorsalgia in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at billable code level.
Under M54 Dorsalgia
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under M54 Dorsalgia in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at billable code level.
Under M54 Dorsalgia
Title match · Official description matches the search terms
Why this matched
- The official description contains the search terms.
- Sits under M54 Dorsalgia in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at billable code level.
Under M51 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
Index / inclusion term · Alphabetic Index: Lumbago, lumbalgia, with sciatica, due to intervertebral disc disorder
Why this matched
- Matched through the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index: “Lumbago, lumbalgia, with sciatica, due to intervertebral disc disorder”
- Sits under M51 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders in the ICD-10-CM tabular.
- The tabular carries it at billable code level.
Related codes
Neighbouring concepts, the primary code’s own tabular relationships, and every code set’s full results.
Explore M54.4
M54.4 Lumbago with sciatica — what its code page carries, from the official tables.
Related concepts, from M54.4's tabular notes
Excludes1
- M51.1Thoracic, thoracolumbar and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy
- M51.362Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbar region with discogenic back pain and lower extremity pain
- M51.372Other intervertebral disc degeneration, lumbosacral region with discogenic back pain and lower extremity pain
ICD-10-CM: 6 matches
5 of them are shown above under Best matches.
Under M51 Thoracic, thoracolumbar, and lumbosacral intervertebral disc disorders
Index / inclusion term
4 codes below, all billable
- M51.14Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, thoracic regionBillable
- M51.15Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, thoracolumbar regionBillable
- M51.16Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, lumbar regionBillable
- M51.17Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, lumbosacral regionBillable
Official source
Code titles, billable status and tabular instructions on this page are read from the published release files in force today: ICD-10-CM FY2027 (CMS and CDC). Open a code to see its official instructions quoted as published, the release and file it came from, its relationships and its change history. A search result is MedCoder’s match of your words to those files, not a code assignment.