Q68.6 — Discoid meniscus
Q68.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for discoid meniscus. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
Q68.6 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.
Medicare coverage
Q68.6 is named in 4 Medicare coverage policies — 4 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A52465Knee Orthoses - Policy Article
- A52465Knee Orthoses - Policy Article
- A53065Billing and Coding: Outpatient Physical Therapy
- A56787Billing and Coding: Nonvascular Extremity Ultrasound
How Q68.6 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 Q68.6.
- Discoid›meniscus(congenital)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share Q68. If Q68.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- Q68.0Congenital deformity of sternocleidomastoid muscle
- Q68.1Congenital deformity of finger(s) and hand
- Q68.2Congenital deformity of knee
- Q68.3Congenital bowing of femur
- Q68.4Congenital bowing of tibia and fibula
- Q68.5Congenital bowing of long bones of leg, unspecified
- Q68.8Other specified congenital musculoskeletal deformities
Questions about Q68.6
- Is Q68.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. Q68.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does Q68.6 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).