What is the ICD-9 Code for Spinal Degenerative Disease?



Answers:    That might be a tad bit too broad being as there is cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine. Are you talking give or take a few the body of the bone or the disks. you'll have to get more specific but try looking here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ICD...
There are a few and you need to be exact when submitting the code base on diagnosis:

721.90 Without mention of myelopathy
Spinal:
arthritis (deformans) (degenerative) (hypertrophic)
osteoarthritis NOS (Not otherwise specified)
Spondylarthrosis NOS (Not otherwise specified)

952 Spinal cord injury without evidence of spinal bone injury

225.4 Spinal meninges
Spinal meningioma

742.9 Unspecified anomaly of brain, spinal cord, and nervous system
Anomaly of brain, nervous system, and spinal cord
Congenital, of brain, afraid system, and spinal cord:
disease of brain, nervous system, and spinal cord
lesion of brain, nervous system, and spinal cord
Deformity of brain, nervous system, and spinal cord

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