Q79.60 — Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, unspecified
Q79.60 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for ehlers-danlos syndrome, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above Q79.60
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of Q79.60, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Risk adjustment
Q79.60 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 Q79.60 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 Q79.60.
- Danlos' syndrome
- Dermatorrhexis
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Syndrome›Danlos'
- Syndrome›Ehlers-Danlos
Code history
Q79.60 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q79.6. If Q79.60 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q79.60
- Is Q79.60 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q79.60 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q79.60 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).