724.5 - Backache, Unspecified
The ICD 9 Code for Backache, unspecified is listed as 724.5.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS, and chapter information where available.
| ICD 9 CM Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Diagnosis Code: | 724.5 |
| Long Description: | Backache, unspecified |
| Short Description: | Backache NOS |
| Chapter: | Diseases Of The Musculoskeletal System And Connective Tissue |
| Block: | Dorsopathies (720-724) |
| ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS): | |
| ICD-10-CM Code: | M54.89 - Other dorsalgia (approximate) |
| ICD-10-CM Code: | M54.9 - Dorsalgia, unspecified (approximate) |
| ICD-9-CM Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 724.5: | |
| 724.1 - Pain in thoracic spine | |
| 724.2 - Lumbago | |
| 724.3 - Sciatica | |
| 724.4 - Thoracic or lumbosacral neuritis or radiculitis, unspecified | |
| 724.6 - Disorders of sacrum | |
| 724.8 - Other symptoms referable to back | |
| 724.9 - Other unspecified back disorders | |