Q79.8
Q79.8 — Other congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q79.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Absence of muscle
- Absence of tendon
- Accessory muscle
- Amyotrophia congenita
- Congenital constricting bands
- Congenital shortening of tendon
- Poland syndrome
Risk adjustment
Q79.8 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 Q79.8 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 Q79.8.
- Acromicria, acromikria
- Amyoplasia congenita
- Myelo-osteo-musculodysplasia hereditaria
- Poland syndrome
- Thoracogastroschisis(congenital)
- Touraine's syndrome
- Absence›muscle(congenital) (pectoral)
- Absence›tendon(congenital)
- Accessory›bone NEC
- Accessory›muscle
- Accessory›tendon
- Agenesis›muscle
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q79. If Q79.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about Q79.8
- Is Q79.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q79.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q79.8 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).