G57.6
G57.6: Lesion of plantar nerve
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
G57.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for lesion of plantar nerve. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Morton's metatarsalgia
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above G57.6
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Written on G57: Mononeuropathies of lower limb
- current traumatic nerve disorder - see nerve injury by body region
Other codes that can never be billed with G57.6
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M77.4Metatarsalgia
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead G57.6
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under G57
- G57.0Lesion of sciatic nerve
- G57.1Meralgia paresthetica
- G57.2Lesion of femoral nerve
- G57.3Lesion of lateral popliteal nerve
- G57.4Lesion of medial popliteal nerve
- G57.5Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- G57.7Causalgia of lower limb
- G57.8Other specified mononeuropathies of lower limb
- G57.9Unspecified mononeuropathy of lower limb