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FY2027

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

Not billable

Is M60.26 billable?

No — M60.26 is a non-billable header code. M60.26 groups more specific codes and cannot be submitted on a claim. A valid ICD-10-CM code must be reported at the highest level of specificity available in its branch. Select one of the 3 billable codes beneath M60.26.

M60.26 at a glance

CodeM60.26
DescriptionForeign body granuloma of soft tissue, not elsewhere classified, lower leg
BillableNo — header code
Code setICD-10-CM FY2027
Valid for encountersOctober 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027

How is M60.26 listed in the Alphabetic Index?

These are the routes through the Alphabetic Index that lead to M60.26. They show the wording a clinician may have documented, which often differs from the Tabular description.

  • Granuloma › foreign bodyNEC › lower leg

Excludes1 — never code together — inherited from M60-M63

The conditions below can never be reported together with M60.26 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

  • dermatopolymyositis (M33.-)
  • myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-)
  • myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0)
  • myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32)
  • myopathy in scleroderma (M34.-)
  • myopathy in Sjögren's syndrome (M35.03)
  • myopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (M32.-)

Excludes1 — never code together — inherited from M60.2

The conditions below can never be reported together with M60.26 on the same claim. An Excludes1 note means the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient, so reporting both is a coding error.

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

Use additional code — inherited from M60.2

Report an additional code alongside M60.26 to fully describe the condition. M60.26 is sequenced first.

  • code to identify the type of retained foreign body (Z18.-)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 13

The conditions below are not part of M60.26, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, M60.26 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from M60-M63

The conditions below are not part of M60.26, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, M60.26 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from M60

The conditions below are not part of M60.26, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, M60.26 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • inclusion body myositis [IBM] (G72.41)

What codes fall under M60.26? (3)

How long has M60.26 existed?

M60.26 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.

Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.

Which conditions are coded to M60.26?

What other codes are in the M60.2 family? (8)