Q55.20
Q55.20 — Unspecified congenital malformations of testis and scrotum
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exemptunspecified
Q55.20 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified congenital malformations of testis and scrotum. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital malformation of testis or scrotum NOS
Risk adjustment
Q55.20 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 Q55.20 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 Q55.20.
- Malformation›testis and scrotum
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q55.2. If Q55.20 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q55.20
- Is Q55.20 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q55.20 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q55.20 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Congenital malformations of genital organs (Q50-Q56).