ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q65 Congenital deformities of hip › Q65.3

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 3 more specific codes instead:

• Q65.30 Congenital partial dislocation of unspecified hip, unilateral
• Q65.31 Congenital partial dislocation of right hip, unilateral
• Q65.32 Congenital partial dislocation of left hip, unilateral

What has happened to this code

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 Q65 Congenital deformities of hip

Excludes1 - never coded here

• clicking hip (R29.4)

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.

• Change > joint
• Mushrooming hip
• Change > hip joint
• Dislocation > partial
• Derangement > shoulder
• Dislocation > incomplete
• Injury > hip > dislocation
• Disorder > joint > derangement
• Subluxation > congenital > hip
• Dislocation > vertebra > partial
• Dislocation > thigh, proximal end
• Dislocation > femur > proximal end
• Dislocation > innominate > acetabulum
• Dislocation > hip > congenital > partial > unilateral

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Q65.0	Congenital dislocation of hip, unilateral	Not billable
Q65.1	Congenital dislocation of hip, bilateral	Valid
Q65.2	Congenital dislocation of hip, unspecified	Valid
Q65.4	Congenital partial dislocation of hip, bilateral	Valid
Q65.5	Congenital partial dislocation of hip, unspecified	Valid
Q65.6	Congenital unstable hip	Valid
Q65.8	Other congenital deformities of hip	Not billable
Q65.9	Congenital deformity of hip, unspecified	Valid