M65.25 is the authoritative medical code for Calcific tendinitis, thigh. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for calcific tendinitis, thigh (ICD-10-CM M65.25), 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 M65.25 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
No. M65.25 (Calcific tendinitis, 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, M65.25 must not be reported with: tendinitis as classified in M75-M77; calcified tendinitis of shoulder (M75.3); chronic crepitant synovitis of hand and wrist (M70.0-); current injury - see injury of ligament or tendon by body region.
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as M65.25, with their registry titles.
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