Q71.6
Q71.6: Lobster-claw hand
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Q71.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for lobster-claw hand. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Cleft›hand
- Split, splitting›hand
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead Q71.6
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under Q71
- Q71.0Congenital complete absence of upper limb
- Q71.1Congenital absence of upper arm and forearm with hand present
- 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
- Q71.8Other reduction defects of upper limb
- Q71.9Unspecified reduction defect of upper limb