Q78.0
Q78.0: Osteogenesis imperfecta
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q78.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for osteogenesis imperfecta. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q78.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Fragilitas ossium
- Osteopsathyrosis
Other codes that can never be billed with Q78.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- M85Other disorders of bone density and structure
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Q78.0 is named in 9 Medicare coverage policies: 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56416Billing and Coding: Assays for Vitamins and Metabolic Function
- A56841Billing and Coding: Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed
- A56907Billing and Coding: Bisphosphonate Drug Therapy
- A57132Billing and Coding: Bone Mass Measurement
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Adair-Dighton syndrome(brittle bones and blue sclera, deafness)
- Eddowes syndrome(-Spurway)
- Ekman's syndrome(brittle bones and blue sclera)
- Lobstein disease or syndrome(-Ekman)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Osteopsathyrosis(idiopathica)
- Spurway's syndrome
- Van der Hoeve syndrome(-de Kleyn)
- Vrolik's disease
- Brittle›bones disease
- Deafness›with blue sclera and fragility of bone
- Disease, diseased›Eddowes'(brittle bones and blue sclera)
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.