ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q35-Q37 › Q37 Cleft palate with cleft lip › Q37.0
Cleft hard palate with bilateral cleft lip
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 hard palate with bilateral cleft lip
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 Q37 Cleft palate with cleft lip
Includes
- cheilopalatoschisis
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
- Harelip
- Patulous
- Nonclosure
- Cheiloschisis
- Palatoschisis
- Labium leporinum
- Imperfect > fusion
- Pervious, congenital
- Open, opening > false
- Fistula > oral > nasal
- Fenestration, fenestrated
- Imperfect > closure > lip
- Deformity > palate > cleft
- Fissure, fissured > palate
- Imperfect > closure > palate
- Absence > congenital > septum
- Perforation, perforated > palate
- Split, splitting > lip, congenital
- Closure > defective or imperfect NEC
- Fissure, fissured > lip > congenital
- Nonunion > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Perforation, perforated > palatine vault
- Open, opening > abnormal, organ or site, congenital
- Cleft > lip > bilateral > with cleft palate > hard
- Cleft > palate > hard > with > cleft lip > bilateral
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q37.1 | Cleft hard palate with unilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.2 | Cleft soft palate with bilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.3 | Cleft soft palate with unilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.4 | Cleft hard and soft palate with bilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.5 | Cleft hard and soft palate with unilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.8 | Unspecified cleft palate with bilateral cleft lip | Valid |
| Q37.9 | Unspecified cleft palate with unilateral cleft lip | Valid |