Q30.3

Q30.3: Congenital perforated nasal septum

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Q30.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital perforated nasal septum. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Q30.3 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q30.3

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Q30: Congenital malformations of nose

congenital deviation of nasal septum (Q67.4)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

Q30.3 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A54111Billing and Coding: Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Services: Communication Disorders
A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Imperfect›closure›nasal septum
Imperfect›closure›septum›nasal
Perforation, perforated›nasal›septum›congenital

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.