Q76.428 — Congenital lordosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
Q76.428 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for congenital lordosis, sacral and sacrococcygeal region. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Q76.428 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
Q76.428 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How Q76.428 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 Q76.428.
- Lordosis›congenital›sacral region
- Lordosis›congenital›sacrococcygeal region
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q76.42. If Q76.428 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q76.428
- Is Q76.428 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q76.428 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q76.428 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).