Q20.0

Q20.0: Common arterial trunk

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Q20.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for common arterial trunk. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Q20.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

aortic septal defect (Q21.4)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Persistent truncus arteriosus

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q20.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Q20: Congenital malformations of cardiac chambers and connections

dextrocardia with situs inversus (Q89.3)
mirror-image atrial arrangement with situs inversus (Q89.3)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

Q20.0 is named in 15 Medicare coverage policies: 15 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
A52868Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
A56476Billing and Coding: Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Common›arterial trunk
Common›truncus(arteriosus)
Persistence, persistent›truncus arteriosus or communis
Truncus›arteriosus(persistent)
Truncus›communis
Malposition›congenital›arterial trunk

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.