DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

Q35 Cleft palate

  • Header · not billable

Q35 is not billable. The category heads 5 billable codes in FY2027: the 5 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Bifid (congenital)uvula → Q35.7
  • Cleft (congenital)uvula → Q35.7
  • Cleft (congenital)palate → Q35.9

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 17 Congenital malformations, deformations, chromosomal abnormalities, and genetic disorders (Q00-QA1)
  2. Q35-Q37 Cleft lip and cleft palate (Q35-Q37)
  3. Q35 Cleft palate
Billable codes
5
Subdivisions
5
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
10

Codes in Q35

  1. Q35.1
    Cleft hard palate
    BillableExempt
  2. Q35.3
    Cleft soft palate
    BillableExempt
  3. Q35.5
    Cleft hard palate with cleft soft palate
    BillableExempt
  4. Q35.7
    Cleft uvula
    BillableExempt
  5. Q35.9
    Cleft palate, unspecified
    BillableExempt
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Cleft palate NOS

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At Q35

Includes

  • fissure of palate
  • palatoschisis

Excludes1

  • cleft palate with cleft lip (Q37.-) Q37

Notes that also apply

Block Q35-Q37 instructions (Excludes2 1, Use additional code 1): printed on the block page.

Chapter 17 instructions (Notes 1, Excludes2 1): printed on the chapter 17 page.

Index entries

  • Perforation, perforated (nontraumatic) (of)palatine vault → Q35.1
  • Bifid (congenital)uvula → Q35.7
  • Cleft (congenital)uvula → Q35.7
  • Cleft (congenital)palate → Q35.9
  • Perforation, perforated (nontraumatic) (of)palate → Q35.9
  • Cleft (congenital)palatehard → Q35.1
  • Cleft (congenital)palatesoft → Q35.3
  • Cleft (congenital)palatemedial → Q35.5
  • Cleft (congenital)palatehardwithsoft → Q35.5
  • Cleft (congenital)palatesoftwithhard → Q35.5

NCHS Alphabetic Index. Index first, then the Tabular List.

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