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Q23

Q23: Congenital malformations of aortic and mitral valves

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Q23 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for congenital malformations of aortic and mitral valves. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Other codes that can never be billed with Q23

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • I34Nonrheumatic mitral valve disorders
  • Q23.0Congenital stenosis of aortic valve
  • Q25.3Supravalvular aortic stenosis
  • Q25.4Other congenital malformations of aorta

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 Q23

7 child codes. Green means billable.

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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