2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 336.9
Unspecified disease of spinal cord
- 2015
- Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
- Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
- ICD-9-CM 336.9 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 336.9 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM:
336.9 converts approximately to:
- 2015/16 ICD-10-CM G95.9 Disease of spinal cord, unspecified
Approximate Synonyms
- Acquired tethered cord syndrome
- Myelopathy
- Posterior cord syndrome
- Spinal cord compression
- Spinal cord disease
- Spinal cord disorder (disorder)
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord lesion
- Spinal cord lesion - no # (disorder)
- Tethered cord syndrome, acquired
Clinical Information
- A non neoplastic or neoplastic disorder that affects the spinal cord
- Pathologic conditions which feature spinal cord damage or dysfunction, including disorders involving the meninges and perimeningeal spaces surrounding the spinal cord
- Pathologic conditions which feature spinal cord damage or dysfunction, including disorders involving the meninges and perimeningeal spaces surrounding the spinal cord. Traumatic injuries, vascular diseases, infections, and inflammatory/autoimmune processes may affect the spinal cord
- Your spinal cord is the part of your nervous system that relays messages to and from your brain. It is housed inside your vertebrae, which are the bone disks that make up your spine. Normally, your vertebrae protect your spinal cord. If they don't, you can sustain a spinal cord injury. Besides injuries, the spinal cord can develop
- tumors
- infections such as meningitis and poliomyelitis
- inflammatory diseases
- autoimmune diseases
- degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy
symptoms vary but might include pain, numbness, loss of sensation and muscle weakness. These symptoms can occur around the spinal cord, and also in other areas such as your arms and legs. Treatments vary but often include medicines and surgery
336.9 Excludes
Applies To
- Cord compression NOS
- Myelopathy NOS
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to
336.9:
- Block
spinal cord 336.9
- Change(s) (of) - see also Removal of
- spinal cord 336.9
- Compression
- spinal (cord) (old or nontraumatic) 336.9
by displacement of intervertebral disc - see Displacement, intervertebral disc- nerve
root NEC 724.9
- postoperative 722.80
- traumatic - see Injury, nerve, spinal
- traumatic - see Injury, nerve, spinal
- spondylogenic 721.91
- traumatic - see also Injury, spinal, by site
- with fracture, vertebra - see Fracture, vertebra, by site, with spinal cord injury
- Disease, diseased - see also Syndrome
- spine, spinal 733.90
- combined system (see also Degeneration, combined) 266.2 [336.2]
- cord NEC 336.9
- demyelinating NEC 341.8
- joint (see also Disease, joint, spine) 724.9
- tuberculous 015.0 [730.8]
- Lesion(s)
- spinal cord 336.9
- congenital 742.9
- traumatic (complete) (incomplete) (transverse) - see also Injury, spinal, by site
- with
- broken
- back - see Fracture, vertebra, by site, with spinal cord injury
- neck - see Fracture, vertebra, cervical, with spinal cord injury
- fracture, vertebra - see Fracture, vertebra, by site, with spinal cord injury
- Myelopathy (spinal cord) 336.9
- due to or with
- necrotic (subacute) 336.1
- transverse (see also Myelitis) 323.82
- Pressure
- spinal cord 336.9
