M60.26

M60.26: Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, lower leg

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M60.26 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, lower leg. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M60.26

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M60.2: Foreign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified

foreign body granuloma of skin and subcutaneous tissue (L92.3)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M60.26

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on M60: Myositis

inclusion body myositis [IBM] (G72.41)

Other codes that can never be billed with M60.26

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

M79.1Myalgia
G72Other and unspecified myopathies

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 M60.26

3 child codes. Green means billable.