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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.

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Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

  • Congenital dislocatable hip

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q65.6

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Q65: Congenital deformities of hip

Other codes that can never be billed with Q65.6

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Dislocatable hip, congenital
  • Predislocation status of hip at birth
  • Preluxation, hip, congenital
  • Subluxatable hip
  • Unstable›hip(congenital)

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under Q65

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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