diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 8abdd60ccad..2d66bc3158d 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -10031,10 +10031,7 @@ class Router:
 
             # If still no deployments after checking for fallbacks, raise an error
             if len(healthy_deployments) == 0:
-                if self.get_model_list(model_name=model) is None:
-                    message = f"You passed in model={model}. There is no 'model_name' with this string"
-                else:
-                    message = f"You passed in model={model}. There are no healthy deployments for this model"
+                message = f"You passed in model={model}. There are no healthy deployments for this model"
 
                 raise litellm.BadRequestError(
                     message=message,