M60.06 is the authoritative medical code for Infective myositis, lower leg. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for infective myositis, lower leg (ICD-10-CM M60.06), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: NO. This is a clinician non-billable / parent hierarchy grouping in the ICD-10-CM system.
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for M60.06 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.
No. M60.06 (Infective myositis, lower leg) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes1 instructions, M60.06 must not be reported together with: dermatopolymyositis (M33.-); myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-); myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0); myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32).
Per official ICD-10-CM Excludes2 instructions, M60.06 and the following are not considered part of each other and may both be reported when both conditions are present: inclusion body myositis [IBM] (G72.41); muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72).
Use additional code(s) to specify: code (B95-B97) to identify infectious agent.
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to M60.06 in its code family, with their registry titles.