Q55.63 — Congenital torsion of penis
Q55.63 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital torsion of penis. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- acquired torsion of penis (N48.82)
Other codes that can never be billed with Q55.63
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Q55.63. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Q55.63 alone.
- N48.82Acquired torsion of penis
Risk adjustment
Q55.63 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 Q55.63 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 Q55.63.
- Torsion›penis›congenital
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q55.6. If Q55.63 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q55.63
- Is Q55.63 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q55.63 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q55.63 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Congenital malformations of genital organs (Q50-Q56).
- What cannot be coded together with Q55.63?
- Q55.63 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.