M60.85 is the authoritative medical code for Other myositis, thigh. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for other myositis, thigh (ICD-10-CM M60.85), 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 M60.85 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.
No. M60.85 (Other myositis, thigh) is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code. A more specific billable subcode must be selected based on clinical documentation.
Per Excludes1 instructions, M60.85 must not be reported with: dermatopolymyositis (M33.-); myopathy in amyloidosis (E85.-); myopathy in polyarteritis nodosa (M30.0); myopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (M05.32).
Per Excludes2 instructions, M60.85 and the following may both be reported when both are present: inclusion body myositis [IBM] (G72.41); muscular dystrophies and myopathies (G71-G72).
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as M60.85, with their registry titles.
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