Q16
Q16: Congenital malformations of ear causing impairment of hearing
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Q16 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for congenital malformations of ear causing impairment of hearing. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- congenital deafness (H90.-)
Other codes that can never be billed with Q16
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Q17Other congenital malformations of ear
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Q16
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- Q16.0Congenital absence of (ear) auricle
- Q16.1Congenital absence, atresia and stricture of auditory canal (external)
- Q16.2Absence of eustachian tube
- Q16.3Congenital malformation of ear ossicles
- Q16.4Other congenital malformations of middle ear
- Q16.5Congenital malformation of inner ear
- Q16.9Congenital malformation of ear causing impairment of hearing, unspecified