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Q44.2
Atresia of bile ducts
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 Atresia of bile ducts
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.
- Missing
- Amputation
- Impervious
- Imperforate
- Loss > organ or part
- Absence > toe > with foot
- Absence > congenital > lumen
- Valve, valvular > congenital NEC
- Blind > tract or tube, congenital NEC
- Stricture > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Constriction > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obliteration > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Block, blocked > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Stenosis, stenotic > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Occlusion, occluded > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Strangulation, strangulated > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Impervious > bile duct
- Atresia, atretic > bile duct
- Atresia, atretic > common duct
- Atresia, atretic > cystic duct
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q44.0 | Agenesis, aplasia and hypoplasia of gallbladder | Valid |
| Q44.1 | Other congenital malformations of gallbladder | Valid |
| Q44.3 | Congenital stenosis and stricture of bile ducts | Valid |
| Q44.4 | Choledochal cyst | Valid |
| Q44.5 | Other congenital malformations of bile ducts | Valid |
| Q44.6 | Cystic disease of liver | Valid |
| Q44.7 | Other congenital malformations of liver | Not billable |