{"disclaimer":"This is my working reading of Minnesota Rule chapter 5223. I keep checking it against the official rule text and published decisions. If a category, percent, or combination looks wrong, email hello@mncompbuddy.com and say what you found. A mismatch is a reason to look again, not a reason to treat this tool or a doctor rating as automatically correct.","manifest":{"part":"5223.0380","title":"Thoracic spine permanency rule 5223.0380","status":"published","publishedOn":"2026-08-18","auditDocument":"docs/audits/ppd-rule-5223-0380-attack.md"},"graph":{"part":"5223.0380","slug":"thoracic-spine","title":"Thoracic spine","summary":"Rule 5223.0380 rates permanent thoracic impairment under one category of subpart 2 (fractures), 3 (thoracic pain syndrome), or 4 (radicular syndromes). Item 4.D adds up to four once-only subitems. The thoracic part has no fusion subpart and no stenosis category.","generalAuthority":{"part":"5223.0380","path":"1","quote":"Subpart 1. General. For permanent partial impairment to the thoracic spine, disability of the whole body is as provided in subparts 2 to 4. The impairing condition in the thoracic spine resulting from an injury may be rated only under one category of subpart 2, 3, or 4. Categories from more than one of subpart 2, 3, or 4 cannot be used in rating the impairing condition resulting from a single injury. Categories in subparts 2 to 4 may not be combined or added together in rating the extent of impairment due to a single injury except as specifically provided. Categories in other subparts may be combined with the rating under subpart 3 or 4 as specifically provided in this part. If any injury has resulted in mutually exclusive impairing conditions in other areas of the spine, such as cervical spine, under part 5223.0370, or lumbar spine, under part 5223.0390, the mutually exclusive impairing conditions must be rated separately and then all ratings combined as described in part 5223.0300, subpart 3, item E.","textHash":"c9cb97b8","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"},"facts":[{"id":"medical.path","label":"Which thoracic spine category family fits the condition","type":"enum","options":[{"value":"fracture","label":"Fracture (subpart 2)"},{"value":"pain-syndrome","label":"thoracic spine pain syndrome (subpart 3)"},{"value":"radiculopathy","label":"Radicular syndrome (subpart 4)"}],"evidence":["MRI report","CT scan report","x-ray report","myelogram report","clinic note documenting persistent findings","MMI report","IME report"]},{"id":"medical.fractureType","label":"Type of vertebral 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part of the treatment","type":"boolean","evidence":["operative report"]},{"id":"medical.additionalSurgery","label":"One or more additional surgeries after the first","type":"boolean","evidence":["operative report"]},{"id":"medical.chronicRadicularSymptoms","label":"Chronic radicular pain or paresthesia persisting despite treatment","type":"boolean","evidence":["clinic note documenting persistent findings","MMI report","IME report"]},{"id":"medical.concurrentQualifyingLesion","label":"An additional concurrent lesion meeting the same criteria (contralateral side at the same level, or either side at another level)","type":"boolean","evidence":["MRI report","CT scan report","x-ray report","myelogram 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4.D stack: base plus all four subitems (audit F-01)","dateOfInjury":"2020-01-15","facts":{"medical.path":"radiculopathy","medical.imagingFinding":"disc-herniation-correlated","medical.chronicRadicularSymptoms":true,"medical.surgeryPerformed":true,"medical.additionalSurgery":true,"medical.concurrentQualifyingLesion":true},"expectedTotalPercent":12},{"id":"thoracic-d-surgery-only","label":"4.D base with first and additional surgery (audit F-02)","dateOfInjury":"2020-01-15","facts":{"medical.path":"radiculopathy","medical.imagingFinding":"disc-herniation-correlated","medical.chronicRadicularSymptoms":false,"medical.surgeryPerformed":true,"medical.additionalSurgery":true,"medical.concurrentQualifyingLesion":false},"expectedTotalPercent":7},{"id":"thoracic-pain-b","label":"Thoracic pain with persistent objective findings","dateOfInjury":"2024-01-01","facts":{"medical.path":"pain-syndrome","medical.objectiveFindings":true},"expectedTotalPercent":2.5},{"id":"thoracic-fracture-posterior-poor","label":"Posterior element fracture, surgery, poor reduction","dateOfInjury":"2024-01-01","facts":{"medical.path":"fracture","medical.fractureType":"posterior-element","medical.fractureSurgery":true,"medical.reductionNormal":false,"medical.multipleVertebralLevelsFractured":false},"expectedTotalPercent":19}],"faq":[{"question":"Why is there no thoracic fusion add-on?","answer":"The thoracic rule has no subpart 5. Its surgery add-ons at 4.D(2) and 4.D(3) are two percent each and apply to any surgery, because there is no fusion subpart to redirect to."},{"question":"Does thoracic pain with an imaging abnormality rate higher than 2.5 percent?","answer":"Not under subpart 3, which rates pain syndrome \"regardless of radiographic abnormality\". Imaging matters only in the radicular categories 4.C and 4.D."}],"notes":["Known simplification held over from the audited ppd-v2 model: the single fact medical.objectiveFindings stands in for both \"persistent objective clinical findings confined to the region\" (items B and C) and \"objective radicular findings\" (items D and E). 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Any other documented acute fracture other than as specified in item A or B, four percent.","textHash":"5828ef12","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-fracture-multiple-levels-addon":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"2.D","quote":"D. For fractures of multiple vertebral levels, add three percent, regardless of the number of levels involved, to item A, B, or C as otherwise applicable.","textHash":"516da782","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-pain-a":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"3.A","quote":"A. Symptoms of pain or stiffness in the region of the thoracic spine not substantiated by persistent objective clinical findings, regardless of radiographic findings, zero percent.","textHash":"303f6706","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-pain-b":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"3.B","quote":"B. Symptoms of pain or stiffness in the region of the thoracic spine, substantiated by persistent objective clinical findings, that is, involuntary muscle tightness in the paradorsal muscles, regardless of radiographic abnormality, 2.5 percent.","textHash":"39139e96","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-radicular-a":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"4.A","quote":"A. Radicular pain or radicular paresthesia, as defined in part 5223.0310, subparts 43 and 44, with or without thoracic pain syndrome, not substantiated by persistent objective clinical findings, regardless of radiographic findings, zero percent.","textHash":"be6a0fc5","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-radicular-b":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"4.B","quote":"B. Radicular pain or radicular paresthesia, with or without thoracic pain syndrome, with persistent objective clinical findings confined to the region of the thoracic spine, that is, involuntary muscle tightness in the paradorsal muscles, but no radiographic findings, 2.5 percent.","textHash":"bc9ab297","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-radicular-c":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"4.C","quote":"C. Radicular pain or radicular paresthesia, with or without thoracic pain syndrome, with persistent objective clinical findings confined to the region of the thoracic spine, that is, involuntary muscle tightness in the paradorsal muscles, and with any radiographic, myelographic, CT scan, or MRI scan abnormality not specifically addressed elsewhere in this part, five percent.","textHash":"05c3562a","url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/5223.0380/"}],"thoracic-radicular-d-base":[{"part":"5223.0380","path":"4.D","quote":"D. 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