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
Q71.6 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 Q71.6 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 Q71.6.
- Cleft›hand
- Split, splitting›hand
Code to one of these instead Q71.6
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q71. If Q71.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about Q71.6
- Is Q71.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Q71.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Q71.6 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).