ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q78 Other osteochondrodysplasias › Q78.9

Q78.9

Osteochondrodysplasia, unspecified

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Osteochondrodysplasia, unspecified

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 Q78 Other osteochondrodysplasias

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.

Showing 40 of 106 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
Q78.0 Osteogenesis imperfecta Valid
Q78.1 Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia Valid
Q78.2 Osteopetrosis Valid
Q78.3 Progressive diaphyseal dysplasia Valid
Q78.4 Enchondromatosis Valid
Q78.5 Metaphyseal dysplasia Valid
Q78.6 Multiple congenital exostoses Valid
Q78.8 Other specified osteochondrodysplasias Valid