ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q20-Q28 › Q21 Congenital malformations of cardiac septa › Q21.1

Q21.1

Atrial septal defect

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2022, and a category header from FY2023.

Submit one of these 8 more specific codes instead:

  • Q21.10 Atrial septal defect, unspecified
  • Q21.11 Secundum atrial septal defect
  • Q21.12 Patent foramen ovale
  • Q21.13 Coronary sinus atrial septal defect
  • Q21.14 Superior sinus venosus atrial septal defect
  • Q21.15 Inferior sinus venosus atrial septal defect
  • Q21.16 Sinus venosus atrial septal defect, unspecified
  • Q21.19 Other specified atrial septal defect

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Atrial septal defect
  2. FY2023 Stopped being billable

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from Q21 Congenital malformations of cardiac septa

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • acquired cardiac septal defect (I51.0)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Q21.0 Ventricular septal defect Valid
Q21.2 Atrioventricular septal defect Not billable
Q21.3 Tetralogy of Fallot Valid
Q21.4 Aortopulmonary septal defect Valid
Q21.8 Other congenital malformations of cardiac septa Valid
Q21.9 Congenital malformation of cardiac septum, unspecified Valid