2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

Q38.5 Congenital malformations of palate, not elsewhere classified

  • Billable
  • POA Exempt
  • 2016–2025

Q38.5 is a billable/specific and POA-exempt diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Congenital malformations of palate, not elsewhere classified.

Inclusion term

  • Congenital absence of uvula

  • Congenital malformation of palate NOS

  • Congenital high arched palate

Type 1 excludes

  • Cleft palate (Q35.-)

  • Cleft palate with cleft lip (Q37.-)

Versions

  1. 2025

    No changes

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    No changes

  10. 2016

    New code