Q67.8

Q67.8: Other congenital deformities of chest

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt

Q67.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other congenital deformities of chest. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check Q67.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Inclusion terms

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

Congenital deformity of chest wall NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q67.8

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on Q67: Congenital musculoskeletal deformities of head, face, spine and chest

congenital malformation syndromes classified to Q87.-
Potter's syndrome (Q60.6)

Other codes that can never be billed with Q67.8

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

Q76Congenital malformations of spine and bony thorax

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

Q67.8 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A57179Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiogram

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Anomaly, anomalous›chest wall
Anomaly, anomalous›thorax(wall)
Distortion›chest(wall)
Distortion›thorax(wall)
Flat›chest, congenital
Deformity›chest›congenital
Deformity›thorax›congenital

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.