C72Malignant neoplasm of spinal cord, cranial nerves and other parts of central nervous system

C72 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for malignant neoplasm of spinal cord, cranial nerves and other parts of central nervous system. It belongs to block C69-C72 (malignant neoplasms of eye, brain and other parts of central nervous system) and chapter 2 (neoplasms). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 7 subcodes must be used instead.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: C72.0 (cord), C72.1 (equina), C72.2 (nerve), C72.3 (nerve), C72.4 (nerve), C72.5 (nerves) and C72.9 (unspecified).

Don't report C72 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: malignant neoplasm of meninges (C70.-) and malignant neoplasm of peripheral nerves and autonomic nervous system (C47.-).

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.