M48.0
Spinal stenosis
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 10 never code together
M00-M99chapter
Excludes2
- arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)L40.5-
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)T79.A-
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 2
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Alongside this code 7 same parent — M48
M48.1 Ankylosing hyperostosis [Forestier] category M48.2 Kissing spine category M48.3 Traumatic spondylopathy category M48.4 Fatigue fracture of vertebra category M48.5 Collapsed vertebra, not elsewhere classified category M48.8 Other specified spondylopathies category M48.9 Spondylopathy, unspecified
Subordinate codes 9
M48.00 Spinal stenosis, site unspecified M48.01 Spinal stenosis, occipito-atlanto-axial region M48.02 Spinal stenosis, cervical region M48.03 Spinal stenosis, cervicothoracic region M48.04 Spinal stenosis, thoracic region M48.05 Spinal stenosis, thoracolumbar region M48.06 Spinal stenosis, lumbar region M48.07 Spinal stenosis, lumbosacral region M48.08 Spinal stenosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
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