Other congenital malformations of liver
- Q44.79 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
- ICD-10-CM Q44.79 is a new 2024 ICD-10-CM code that became effective on October 1, 2023.
- This is the American ICD-10-CM version of Q44.79 – other international versions of ICD-10 Q44.79 may differ.
Applicable To
- Accessory liver
- Congenital absence of liver
- Congenital hepatomegaly
The following code(s) above Q44.79 contain annotation back-references
that may be applicable to Q44.79:
- Q00-Q99 Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Q44.7 Other congenital malformations of liver
Present On Admission
- Q44.79 is considered exempt from POA reporting.
ICD-10-CM Q44.79 is grouped within Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG v41.0):
- 441 Disorders of liver except malignancy, cirrhosis or alcoholic hepatitis with mcc
- 442 Disorders of liver except malignancy, cirrhosis or alcoholic hepatitis with cc
- 443 Disorders of liver except malignancy, cirrhosis or alcoholic hepatitis without cc/mcc
Code History
- 2024 (effective 10/1/2023): New code
Diagnosis Index entries containing back-references to Q44.79:
- Absence (of) (organ or part) (complete or partial)
- liver Q44.79 (congenital)
- Accessory (congenital)
- liver Q44.79
- Agenesis
- hepatic Q44.79
- liver Q44.79
- Distortion(s) (congenital)
- liver Q44.79
- Duplication, duplex – see also Accessory
- liver Q44.79
- Hepatomegaly – see also Hypertrophy, liver
- congenital Q44.79
- Hyperplasia, hyperplastic
- liver (congenital) Q44.79
- Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
- Hypoplasia, hypoplastic
- liver Q44.79
- Lobulation (congenital) – see also Anomaly, by site
- liver, abnormal Q44.79
- Malposition
- congenital
- liver Q44.79
- congenital
- Riedel’s
- lobe, liver Q44.79