Q10.3 — Other congenital malformations of eyelid
Q10.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other congenital malformations of eyelid. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Ablepharon
- Blepharophimosis, congenital
- Coloboma of eyelid
- Congenital absence or agenesis of cilia
- Congenital absence or agenesis of eyelid
- Congenital accessory eyelid
- Congenital accessory eye muscle
- Congenital malformation of eyelid NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with Q10.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Q10.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Q10.3 alone.
- H02Other disorders of eyelid
Risk adjustment
Q10.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Q10.3 is named in 8 Medicare coverage policies — 8 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
- A56439Billing and Coding: Blepharoplasty
- A56503Billing and Coding: Blepharoplasty, Eyelid Surgery, and Brow Lift
- A56908Billing and Coding: Blepharoplasty, Blepharoptosis and Brow Lift
How Q10.3 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Q10.3.
- Ablepharia, ablepharon
- Epiblepharon(congenital)
- Epicanthus, epicanthic fold(eyelid) (congenital)
- Narrowness, abnormal, eyelid
- Absence›cilia(congenital)
- Absence›eyelid(fold) (congenital)
- Accessory›eye muscle
- Accessory›eyelid
- Agenesis›cilia
- Agenesis›eyelid(fold)
- Ankyloblepharon›filiforme(adnatum) (congenital)
- Ankyloblepharon›total
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q10. If Q10.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q10.3
- Is Q10.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q10.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q10.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Congenital malformations of eye, ear, face and neck (Q10-Q18).