ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q67 Congenital musculoskeletal... › Q67.6
Pectus excavatum
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 Pectus excavatum
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 Q67 Congenital musculoskeletal deformities of head, face, spine and chest
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital malformation syndromes classified to Q87.-
- Potter's syndrome (Q60.6)
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.
- Pectus > excavatum
- Pectus > recurvatum
- Funnel > chest > congenital
- Funnel > breast > congenital
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q67.0 | Congenital facial asymmetry | Valid |
| Q67.1 | Congenital compression facies | Valid |
| Q67.2 | Dolichocephaly | Valid |
| Q67.3 | Plagiocephaly | Valid |
| Q67.4 | Other congenital deformities of skull, face and jaw | Valid |
| Q67.5 | Congenital deformity of spine | Valid |
| Q67.7 | Pectus carinatum | Valid |
| Q67.8 | Other congenital deformities of chest | Valid |