Q68.4
Q68.4 — Congenital bowing of tibia and fibula
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q68.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital bowing of tibia and fibula. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Q68.4 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 Q68.4 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 Q68.4.
- Bowing›fibula›congenital
- Bowing›tibia›congenital
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q68. If Q68.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q68.0Congenital deformity of sternocleidomastoid muscle
- Q68.1Congenital deformity of finger(s) and hand
- Q68.2Congenital deformity of knee
- Q68.3Congenital bowing of femur
- Q68.5Congenital bowing of long bones of leg, unspecified
- Q68.6Discoid meniscus
- Q68.8Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities
Questions about Q68.4
- Is Q68.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q68.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q68.4 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).