Q72.7
Q72.7 — Split foot
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
Q72.7 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for split foot. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
Q72.7 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 Q72.7 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 Q72.7.
- Cleft›foot
Code to one of these instead Q72.7
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q72. If Q72.7 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q72.0Congenital complete absence of lower limb
- Q72.1Congenital absence of thigh and lower leg with foot present
- Q72.2Congenital absence of both lower leg and foot
- Q72.3Congenital absence of foot and toe(s)
- Q72.4Longitudinal reduction defect of femur
- Q72.5Longitudinal reduction defect of tibia
- Q72.6Longitudinal reduction defect of fibula
- Q72.8Other reduction defects of lower limb
- Q72.9Unspecified reduction defect of lower limb
Questions about Q72.7
- Is Q72.7 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. Q72.7 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does Q72.7 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).