ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q68 Other congenital musculoskeletal... › Q68.8
Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities
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 Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities
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.
- Flexure
- Aberrant
- Asymmetry
- Nondescent
- Transposed
- Undescended
- Drop > finger
- Transposition
- Change > joint
- Injury > axilla
- Mushrooming hip
- Deformity > thumb
- Dilated, dilation
- Change > hip joint
- Overriding > finger
- Retraction > finger
- Dislocation > glenoid
- Dislocation > partial
- Elongated, elongation
- Derangement > shoulder
- Dislocation > coracoid
- Termination > anomalous
- Dislocation > incomplete
- Dislocation > subglenoid
- Heterotopia, heterotopic
- Injury > scapular region
- Subluxation > congenital
- Dislocation > ulnohumeral
- Tight, tightness > tendon
- Dislocation > glenohumeral
- Dislocation > infracoracoid
- Disorder > joint > stiffness
- Flexion > contracture, joint
- Injury > elbow > dislocation
- Disorder > joint > derangement
- Complex > jumped process, spine
- Dislocation > thorax > vertebra
- Disorder > tendon > contracture
- Injury > shoulder > dislocation
- Disease, diseased > diverticular
Showing 40 of 118 index phrases.
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 |
| Q68.2 | Congenital deformity of knee | 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 |