Q71.1
Q71.1 — Congenital absence of upper arm and forearm with hand present
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Q71.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for congenital absence of upper arm and forearm with hand present. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
Q71.1 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 Q71.1
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- Q71.10Congenital absence of unspecified upper arm and forearm with hand present
- Q71.11Congenital absence of right upper arm and forearm with hand present
- Q71.12Congenital absence of left upper arm and forearm with hand present
- Q71.13Congenital absence of upper arm and forearm with hand present, bilateral
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q71. If Q71.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q71.0Congenital complete absence of upper limb
- Q71.2Congenital absence of both forearm and hand
- Q71.3Congenital absence of hand and finger
- Q71.4Longitudinal reduction defect of radius
- Q71.5Longitudinal reduction defect of ulna
- Q71.6Lobster-claw hand
- Q71.8Other reduction defects of upper limb
- Q71.9Unspecified reduction defect of upper limb
Questions about Q71.1
- Is Q71.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Q71.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Q71.1 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).