Q68.8 — Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities
Q68.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital deformity of clavicle
- Congenital deformity of elbow
- Congenital deformity of forearm
- Congenital deformity of scapula
- Congenital deformity of wrist
- Congenital dislocation of elbow
- Congenital dislocation of shoulder
- Congenital dislocation of wrist
Risk adjustment
Q68.8 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.
Medicare coverage
Q68.8 is named in 3 Medicare coverage policies — 3 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
- A53064Billing and Coding: Outpatient Occupational Therapy
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How Q68.8 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 Q68.8.
- Arthrogryposis(congenital)
- Cubitus›congenital
- Dislocation›congenital NEC
- Distortion›arm NEC
- Distortion›femur NEC
- Distortion›fibula NEC
- Distortion›humerus NEC
- Distortion›leg NEC
- Distortion›radius NEC
- Distortion›tibia NEC
- Distortion›ulna NEC
- Distortion›wrist(bones) (joint)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q68. If Q68.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q68.8
- Is Q68.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q68.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q68.8 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).