Q00.0: Anencephaly
Q00.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for anencephaly. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q00.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Acephaly
- Acrania
- Amyelencephaly
- Hemianencephaly
- Hemicephaly
Other codes that can never be billed with Q00.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Q75Other congenital malformations of skull and face bones
Risk adjustment
Q00.0 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 182 Spinal Cord Disorders/Injuries0.478 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.
Medicare coverage
Q00.0 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Acephalia, acephalism, acephalus, acephaly
- Acrania
- Amyelencephalus, amyelencephaly
- Anencephalus, anencephaly
- Hemianencephaly
- Hemicephalus, hemicephaly
- Absence›brain
- Agenesis›brain
- Anomaly, anomalous›hemianencephaly
- Anomaly, anomalous›hemicephaly
- Anomaly, anomalous›hemicrania
- Aplasia›brain
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.