ICD-10-CM › Q00-QA1 › Q65-Q79 › Q79 Congenital malformations of... › Q79.8
Other congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system
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 congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system
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 Q79 Congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- congenital (sternomastoid) torticollis (Q68.0)
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.
- Extra
- Fused
- Stump
- Trifid
- Triple
- Aplasia
- Missing
- Immature
- Additional
- Amputation
- Rudimentary
- Myodiastasis
- Triplication
- Reduplication
- Disarticulation
- Union, abnormal
- Underdevelopment
- Duplication, duplex
- Separation > muscle
- Loss > organ or part
- Segmentation, incomplete
- Absence > toe > with foot
- Prematurity NEC > extreme
- Tight, tightness > tendon
- Undeveloped, undevelopment
- Birth > immature > extremely
- Immature > birth > extremely
- Syndrome > cardiorenal Note:
- Premature > newborn > extreme
- Failure, failed > segmentation
- Immaturity > organ or site NEC
- Cicatrix > muscle > with contracture
- Syndrome > cardiovascular renal Note:
- Rupture, ruptured > muscle > diastasis
- Absence > congenital > organ or site NEC
- Supernumerary > organ or site not listed
- Unilateral > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > flaccid
- Nondevelopment > organ or site, congenital NEC
- Development > incomplete > organ or site not listed
Showing 40 of 70 index phrases.
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Q79.0 | Congenital diaphragmatic hernia | Valid |
| Q79.1 | Other congenital malformations of diaphragm | Valid |
| Q79.2 | Exomphalos | Valid |
| Q79.3 | Gastroschisis | Valid |
| Q79.4 | Prune belly syndrome | Valid |
| Q79.5 | Other congenital malformations of abdominal wall | Not billable |
| Q79.6 | Ehlers-Danlos syndromes | Not billable |
| Q79.9 | Congenital malformation of musculoskeletal system, unspecified | Valid |