ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q50-Q56 › Q56 Indeterminate sex and pseudohermaphroditism › Q56.2

Q56.2

Female pseudohermaphroditism, not elsewhere classified

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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 Female pseudohermaphroditism, not elsewhere classified

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 Q56 Indeterminate sex and pseudohermaphroditism

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • 46,XX true hermaphrodite (Q99.1)
  • androgen insensitivity syndrome (E34.5-)
  • chimera 46,XX/46,XY true hermaphrodite (Q99.0)
  • female pseudohermaphroditism with adrenocortical disorder (E25.-)
  • pseudohermaphroditism with specified chromosomal anomaly (Q96-Q99)
  • pure gonadal dysgenesis (Q99.1)

Inherited from the Q50-Q56 section Congenital malformations of genital organs (Q50-Q56)

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • syndromes associated with anomalies in the number and form of chromosomes (Q90-Q99)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Q56.0 Hermaphroditism, not elsewhere classified Valid
Q56.1 Male pseudohermaphroditism, not elsewhere classified Valid
Q56.3 Pseudohermaphroditism, unspecified Valid
Q56.4 Indeterminate sex, unspecified Valid