Q37.8
Q37.8 — Unspecified cleft palate with bilateral cleft lip
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exemptbilateral
Q37.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified cleft palate with bilateral cleft lip. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Q37.8 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How Q37.8 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to Q37.8.
- Cleft›lip›bilateral›with cleft palate
- Cleft›palate›with cleft lip›bilateral
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q37. If Q37.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q37.0Cleft hard palate with bilateral cleft lip
- Q37.1Cleft hard palate with unilateral cleft lip
- Q37.2Cleft soft palate with bilateral cleft lip
- Q37.3Cleft soft palate with unilateral cleft lip
- Q37.4Cleft hard and soft palate with bilateral cleft lip
- Q37.5Cleft hard and soft palate with unilateral cleft lip
- Q37.9Unspecified cleft palate with unilateral cleft lip
Questions about Q37.8
- Is Q37.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q37.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q37.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Cleft lip and cleft palate (Q35-Q37).