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Low back pain ICD-10-CM Codes

Low back pain ICD-10-CM search: the coding concepts MedCoder holds for low back pain. Concepts covered: Low back pain, unspecified, Vertebrogenic low back pain, Other low back pain, Lumbago with sciatica. Results are organised from ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II, Drugs (NDC).

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“Low back pain” stopped being one code: M54.5 was deleted and replaced by three subcodes separating vertebrogenic low back pain from other and from unspecified. Lumbago with sciatica, and the disc disorders that cause it, sit in categories of their own.

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Lumbago with sciatica

Sciatica

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For M54.50 Low back pain, unspecified

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M54.5Low back pain
ICD-10-CM · FY2027SubcategoryNot billable

Under M54 Dorsalgia

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  • 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

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Explore M54.5

M54.5 Low back pain — what its code page carries, from the official tables.

Hierarchy3· 3 billableExcludes15Referenced by other codes14CCSR clinical group1· Low back painCode history2CompareClaim Check

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ICD-10-CM

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HCPCS Level II: 17 matches

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G8493I intend to report the back pain measures group
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G8502All quality actions for the applicable measures in the back pain measures group have been performed for this patient
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G9941Back pain was measured by the visual analog scale (vas) within three months preoperatively and at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G9943Back pain was not measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G9946Back pain was not measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale at one year (9 to 15 months) postoperatively
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G9944Back pain was measured by the visual analog scale (vas) within three months preoperatively and at one year (9 to 15 months) postoperatively
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G8660Residual score for the low back impairment successfully calculated and the score was less than zero (< 0)
HCPCS Level II · October 2026
G2137Back pain measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively was greater than 3.0 and back pain measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale within three months preoperatively and at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively demonstrated improvement of less than 5.0 points
HCPCS Level II · October 2026

Drugs (NDC): 1 match

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63083-2041Low Back Pain Drops
Drug (NDC)