ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q65 Congenital deformities of hip › Q65.6
Congenital unstable hip
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 unstable hip
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.
- Unstable > hip
- Subluxatable hip
- Dislocatable hip, congenital
- Preluxation, hip, congenital
- Predislocation status of hip at birth
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 |
| Q65.3 | Congenital partial dislocation of hip, unilateral | Not billable |
| Q65.4 | Congenital partial dislocation of hip, bilateral | Valid |
| Q65.5 | Congenital partial dislocation of hip, unspecified | Valid |
| Q65.8 | Other congenital deformities of hip | Not billable |
| Q65.9 | Congenital deformity of hip, unspecified | Valid |