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Q37

Q37: Cleft palate with cleft lip

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

Q37 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cleft palate with cleft lip. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Includes

Conditions this code covers.

  • cheilopalatoschisis

Other codes that can never be billed with Q37

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

  • Q18Other congenital malformations of face and neck
  • Q35Cleft palate
  • Q36Cleft lip
  • Q38.0Congenital malformations of lips, not elsewhere classified
  • Q38.5Congenital malformations of palate, not elsewhere classified

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 Q37

8 child codes. Green means billable.

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

Loaded directly from the CMS/NCHS ICD-10-CM public-domain release: see data sources and our editorial policy. If this page disagrees with the CMS tabular list, this page is wrong. Reference information for professional coders; not medical or billing advice.