Congenital deformity of knee

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.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Congenital deformity of knee

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 Q68 Other congenital musculoskeletal deformities

Excludes1 - never coded here

reduction defects of limb(s) (Q71-Q73)

Excludes2 - not included here

congenital myotonic chondrodystrophy (G71.13)

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 > knee > dislocation
Disorder > joint > derangement
Dislocation > femur > distal end
Dislocation > vertebra > partial
Dislocation > tibia > proximal end
Dislocation > fibula > proximal end
Dislocation > tibiofibular > superior
Disruption > ligament > knee > current injury
Genu > recurvatum > congenital
Dislocation > knee > congenital
Deformity > knee NEC > congenital

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
Q68.0	Congenital deformity of sternocleidomastoid muscle	Valid
Q68.1	Congenital deformity of finger(s) and hand	Valid
Q68.3	Congenital bowing of femur	Valid
Q68.4	Congenital bowing of tibia and fibula	Valid
Q68.5	Congenital bowing of long bones of leg, unspecified	Valid
Q68.6	Discoid meniscus	Valid
Q68.8	Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities	Valid