M76.6

M76.6: Achilles tendinitis

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M76.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for achilles tendinitis. 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.

Achilles bursitis

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above M76.6

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

Written on M76: Enthesopathies, lower limb, excluding foot

bursitis due to use, overuse and pressure (M70.-)
enthesopathies of ankle and foot (M77.5-)

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 M76.6

3 child codes. Green means billable.

M76.60Achilles tendinitis, unspecified leg
M76.61Achilles tendinitis, right leg
M76.62Achilles tendinitis, left leg

Other codes under M76

M76.0Gluteal tendinitis
M76.1Psoas tendinitis
M76.2Iliac crest spur
M76.3Iliotibial band syndrome
M76.4Tibial collateral bursitis [Pellegrini-Stieda]
M76.5Patellar tendinitis
M76.7Peroneal tendinitis
M76.8Other specified enthesopathies of lower limb, excluding foot
M76.9Unspecified enthesopathy, lower limb, excluding foot