Other congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system
Billable / specificPOA exempt
Q79.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Absence of muscle
- Absence of tendon
- Accessory muscle
- Amyotrophia congenita
- Congenital constricting bands
- Congenital shortening of tendon
- Poland syndrome
Includes (from Q79)
- Note: Codes from this chapter are not for use on maternal records
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Also known as
- Absence of muscle
- Absence of tendon
- Accessory muscle
- Amyotrophia congenita
- Congenital constricting bands
- Congenital shortening of tendon
- Poland syndrome
- Absence, muscle
- Absence, tendon
- Accessory, bone NEC
- Accessory, muscle
- Accessory, tendon
- Acromicria, acromikria
- Agenesis, muscle
- Agenesis, musculoskeletal system NEC
- Agenesis, tendon
- Amyoplasia congenita
- Amyotrophia, amyotrophy, amyotrophic, congenita
- Band, constricting, congenital
- Contraction, contracture, contracted, ligament, congenital
- Contraction, contracture, contracted, muscleNEC, congenital
- Diastasis, muscle, congenital
Parent code
- Q79Congenital malformations of musculoskeletal system, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
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- Q79.9Congenital malformation of musculoskeletal system, unspecifiedBillable