Q53.112 — Unilateral inguinal testis
Q53.112 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unilateral inguinal testis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Q53.112 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.
Medicare coverage
Q53.112 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A55336Billing and Coding: Retroperitoneal Ultrasound
- A56421Billing and Coding: CT of the Abdomen and Pelvis
- A58828Billing and Coding: Treatment of Males with Low Testosterone
How Q53.112 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 Q53.112.
- Inguinal›testicle›unilateral
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q53.11. If Q53.112 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q53.112
- Is Q53.112 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q53.112 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q53.112 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Congenital malformations of genital organs (Q50-Q56).