Q77.2
Q77.2: Short rib syndrome
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q77.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for short rib syndrome. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q77.2 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Asphyxiating thoracic dysplasia [Jeune]
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above Q77.2
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Q77.2
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with Q77.2
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Q76.6Other congenital malformations of ribs
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Jeune's disease
- Dysplasia›asphyxiating thoracic(congenital)
- Dystrophy, dystrophia›thoracic, asphyxiating
- Short, shortening, shortness›rib syndrome
- Syndrome›short›rib
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under Q77
- Q77.0Achondrogenesis
- Q77.1Thanatophoric short stature
- Q77.3Chondrodysplasia punctata
- Q77.4Achondroplasia
- Q77.5Diastrophic dysplasia
- Q77.6Chondroectodermal dysplasia
- Q77.7Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia
- Q77.8Other osteochondrodysplasia with defects of growth of tubular bones and spine
- Q77.9Osteochondrodysplasia with defects of growth of tubular bones and spine, unspecified