Q67.7 — Pectus carinatum
Q67.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pectus carinatum. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital pigeon chest
Risk adjustment
Q67.7 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.
Medicare coverage
Q67.7 is named in 6 Medicare coverage policies — 6 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- A57179Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiogram
How Q67.7 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 Q67.7.
- Pectus›carinatum(congenital)
- Pigeon›breast or chest›congenital
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q67. If Q67.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q67.7
- Is Q67.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q67.7 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q67.7 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).