Q65.8
Q65.8 — Other congenital deformities of hip
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Q65.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other congenital deformities of hip. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with Q65.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at Q65.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading Q65.8 alone.
Risk adjustment
Q65.8 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.
Code to one of these instead Q65.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q65. If Q65.8 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
- Q65.6Congenital unstable hip
- Q65.9Congenital deformity of hip, unspecified
Questions about Q65.8
- Is Q65.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Q65.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Q65.8 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).