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Q40.9
Congenital malformation of upper alimentary tract, 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 Congenital malformation of upper alimentary tract, unspecified
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
- Extra
- Fused
- Patent
- Trifid
- Triple
- Window
- Aplasia
- Aberrant
- Patulous
- Abnormity
- Asymmetry
- Dysplasia
- Additional
- Lobulation
- Nonclosure
- Nondescent
- Fold, folds
- Rudimentary
- Undescended
- Malformation
- Triplication
- Transposition
- Birth > defect
- Maldevelopment
- Septum, septate
- Union, abnormal
- Imperfect > fusion
- Vestige, vestigial
- Duplication, duplex
- Lesion > congenital
- Pervious, congenital
- Elongated, elongation
- Open, opening > false
- Termination > anomalous
- Heterotopia, heterotopic
- Implantation > anomalous
- Segmentation, incomplete
- Subluxation > congenital
- Congenital > malformation
Showing 40 of 100 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q40.0 | Congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis | Valid |
| Q40.1 | Congenital hiatus hernia | Valid |
| Q40.2 | Other specified congenital malformations of stomach | Valid |
| Q40.3 | Congenital malformation of stomach, unspecified | Valid |
| Q40.8 | Other specified congenital malformations of upper alimentary tract | Valid |