Q24.9

Q24.9: Congenital malformation of heart, unspecified

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Q24.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital malformation of heart, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.

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Inclusion terms

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

Congenital anomaly of heart
Congenital disease of heart

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q24.9

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Q24: Other congenital malformations of heart

endocardial fibroelastosis (I42.4)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

Q24.9 is named in 12 Medicare coverage policies: 12 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A52850Billing and Coding: Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Angiography
A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
A56451Billing and Coding: Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT) and Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA)
A56476Billing and Coding: Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Acyanotic heart disease(congenital)
Atelocardia
Anomaly, anomalous›cardiac
Anomaly, anomalous›heart
Blue›baby
Cyanotic heart disease›congenital
Deformity›heart(congenital)
Malformation›heart
Development›imperfect, congenital›heart
Disease, diseased›heart›congenital
Lesion›cardiac›congenital
Disease, diseased›heart›congenital›cyanotic

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.