Q82.0
Q82.0: Hereditary lymphedema
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
Q82.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for hereditary lymphedema. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check Q82.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1 inherited from the categories above Q82.0
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Other codes that can never be billed with Q82.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
Q82.0 is named in 10 Medicare coverage policies: 9 listing it as supporting medical necessity, and 1 listing it as NOT covered. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A57067Billing and Coding: Outpatient Physical and Occupational Therapy Servicesnot covered
- A52993Billing and Coding: Peripheral Venous Ultrasound
- A52996Billing and Coding: Routine Foot Care
- A53057Billing and Coding: Home Health Occupational Therapy
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Meige-Milroy disease(chronic hereditary edema)
- Meige's syndrome
- Milroy's disease(chronic hereditary edema)
- Nonne-Milroy syndrome
- Pseudoelephantiasis neuroarthritica
- Trophedema(congenital) (hereditary)
- Tropholymphedema
- Disease, diseased›Meige's(chronic hereditary edema)
- Disease, diseased›Milroy's(chronic hereditary edema)
- Disease, diseased›Nonne-Milroy-Meige(chronic hereditary edema)
- Edema, edematous›chronic hereditary
- Edema, edematous›familial, hereditary
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.