Q65.6
Q65.6 — Congenital unstable hip
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q65.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital unstable hip. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital dislocatable hip
Risk adjustment
Q65.6 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 Q65.6 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 Q65.6.
- Dislocatable hip, congenital
- Predislocation status of hip at birth
- Preluxation, hip, congenital
- Subluxatable hip
- Unstable›hip(congenital)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q65. If Q65.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q65.0Congenital dislocation of hip, unilateral
- Q65.1Congenital dislocation of hip, bilateral
- Q65.2Congenital dislocation of hip, unspecified
- Q65.3Congenital partial dislocation of hip, unilateral
- Q65.4Congenital partial dislocation of hip, bilateral
- Q65.5Congenital partial dislocation of hip, unspecified
- Q65.8Other congenital deformities of hip
- Q65.9Congenital deformity of hip, unspecified
Questions about Q65.6
- Is Q65.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q65.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q65.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-QA0), in the block Congenital malformations and deformations of the musculoskeletal system (Q65-Q79).