M79.6

M79.6: Pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

M79.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for pain in limb, hand, foot, fingers and toes. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

pain in joint (M25.5-)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above M79.6

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on M79: Other and unspecified soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified

psychogenic rheumatism (F45.8)
soft tissue pain, psychogenic (F45.41)

Other codes that can never be billed with M79.6

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

R52Pain, unspecified

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 M79.6

7 child codes. Green means billable.