Valid for Submission
Q39.5 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of congenital dilatation of esophagus. The code is valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code Q39.5 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like achalasia microcephaly syndrome, achalasia of esophagus, achalasia of esophagus, alacrima, complete deafness, congenital achalasia of esophagus, etc The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.
ICD-10: | Q39.5 |
Short Description: | Congenital dilatation of esophagus |
Long Description: | Congenital dilatation of esophagus |
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code Q39.5:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Congenital cardiospasm
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code Q39.5 are found in the index:
- - Achalasia (cardia) (esophagus) - K22.0
- - congenital - Q39.5
- - Cardiospasm (esophagus) (reflex) (stomach) - K22.0
- - congenital - Q39.5
- - with megaesophagus - Q39.5
- - congenital - Q39.5
- - Dilatation
- - esophagus - K22.8
- - congenital - Q39.5
- - esophagus - K22.8
- - Giant
- - esophagus, congenital - Q39.5
- - Megaesophagus (functional) - K22.0
- - congenital - Q39.5
- - Megaloesophagus (functional) - K22.0
- - congenital - Q39.5
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Achalasia microcephaly syndrome
- Achalasia of esophagus
- Achalasia of esophagus
- Alacrima
- Complete deafness
- Congenital achalasia of esophagus
- Congenital achalasia of esophagus
- Congenital anomaly of lacrimal gland
- Congenital cardiospasm
- Congenital deafness
- Congenital dilatation of esophagus
- Deafness, vitiligo, achalasia syndrome
- Dilatation of esophagus
- Giant esophagus
- Intellectual disability, alacrima, achalasia syndrome
Diagnostic Related Groups
The ICD-10 code Q39.5 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V37.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2020.
- 368 - MAJOR ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS WITH MCC
- 369 - MAJOR ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS WITH CC
- 370 - MAJOR ESOPHAGEAL DISORDERS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Present on Admission (POA)
Q39.5 is exempt from POA reporting - The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement. Review other POA exempt codes here .
CMS POA Indicator Options and Definitions
POA Indicator Code | POA Reason for Code | CMS will pay the CC/MCC DRG? |
---|---|---|
Y | Diagnosis was present at time of inpatient admission. | YES |
N | Diagnosis was not present at time of inpatient admission. | NO |
U | Documentation insufficient to determine if the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | NO |
W | Clinically undetermined - unable to clinically determine whether the condition was present at the time of inpatient admission. | YES |
1 | Unreported/Not used - Exempt from POA reporting. | NO |
Convert Q39.5 to ICD-9
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020