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ICD-10/G57.20

G57.20 ICD-10-CM Code: Lesion of femoral nerve, unspecified lower limb

Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 073 — CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 01)
  • MS-DRG 074 — CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 01)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.

Official Registry Overview & Definition

Lesion of femoral nerve, unspecified lower limb is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (G57.20).

Official Tabular Instructional Notes

Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for G57.20 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.

Excludes1 — Not Coded Here

Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.

  • current traumatic nerve disorder - see nerve injury by body region
  • current traumatic nerve, nerve root and plexus disorders - see Injury, nerve by body region
  • neuralgia NOS (M79.2)
  • neuritis NOS (M79.2)
  • peripheral neuritis in pregnancy (O26.82-)
  • radiculitis NOS (M54.1-)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to G57.20 in its code family, with their registry titles.

  • G57.10 — Meralgia paresthetica, unspecified lower limb
  • G57.11 — Meralgia paresthetica, right lower limb
  • G57.12 — Meralgia paresthetica, left lower limb
  • G57.13 — Meralgia paresthetica, bilateral lower limbs
  • G57.2 — Lesion of femoral nerve
  • G57.21 — Lesion of femoral nerve, right lower limb
  • G57.22 — Lesion of femoral nerve, left lower limb
  • G57.23 — Lesion of femoral nerve, bilateral lower limbs
  • G57.3 — Lesion of lateral popliteal nerve
  • G57.30 — Lesion of lateral popliteal nerve, unspecified lower limb

View all codes in the G57 family