ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q35-Q37 › Q35 Cleft palate › Q35.9
Cleft palate, unspecified
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Cleft palate, unspecified
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 Q35 Cleft palate
Excludes1 - never coded here
- cleft palate with cleft lip (Q37.-)
Includes
- fissure of palate
- palatoschisis
Inherited from the Q35-Q37 section Cleft lip and cleft palate (Q35-Q37)
Excludes2 - not included here
- Robin's syndrome (Q87.0)
Use additional code
- code to identify associated malformation of the nose (Q30.2)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Cleft
- Patent
- Window
- Patulous
- Nonclosure
- Palatoschisis
- Imperfect > fusion
- Pervious, congenital
- Open, opening > false
- Fistula > oral > nasal
- Fenestration, fenestrated
- Deformity > palate > cleft
- Fissure, fissured > palate
- Imperfect > closure > palate
- Absence > congenital > septum
- Perforation, perforated > palate
- Closure > defective or imperfect NEC
- Nonunion > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Open, opening > abnormal, organ or site, congenital
- Cleft > palate
- Perforation, perforated > palate
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q35.1 | Cleft hard palate | Valid |
| Q35.3 | Cleft soft palate | Valid |
| Q35.5 | Cleft hard palate with cleft soft palate | Valid |
| Q35.7 | Cleft uvula | Valid |