M65.3

M65.3: Trigger finger

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M65.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for trigger finger. 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.

Nodular tendinous disease

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M65.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M65: Synovitis and tenosynovitis

chronic crepitant synovitis of hand and wrist (M70.0-)
current injury - see injury of ligament or tendon by body region
soft tissue disorders related to use, overuse and pressure (M70.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with M65.3

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

M20.0Deformity of finger(s)

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 M65.3

6 child codes. Green means billable.