Q24.8
Q24.8: Other specified congenital malformations of heart
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q24.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified congenital malformations of heart. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q24.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital diverticulum of left ventricle
- Congenital malformation of myocardium
- Congenital malformation of pericardium
- Malposition of heart
- Uhl's disease
Other codes that can never be billed with Q24.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- I38Endocarditis, valve unspecified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Q24.8 is named in 19 Medicare coverage policies: 19 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
- A56451Billing and Coding: Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT) and Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA)
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Cordis ectopia
- Ectocardia
- Hemicardia
- Uhl's anomaly or disease
- Absence›pericardium(congenital)
- Accessory›cusp, heart valve NEC(s)
- Accessory›heart
- Accessory›leaflet, heart valve NEC
- Accessory›valve, heart NEC
- Agenesis›heart
- Agenesis›pericardium
- Anomaly, anomalous›chordae tendineae
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.