Q21.10 ICD-10-CM Code: Atrial septal defect, unspecified
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)
MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v43.0 (FY2026), Appendix B.
- MS-DRG 306 — CARDIAC CONGENITAL AND VALVULAR DISORDERS WITH MCC (MDC 05)
- MS-DRG 307 — CARDIAC CONGENITAL AND VALVULAR DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC (MDC 05)
A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.
Code Set: Valid FY2026 and FY2027. FY2026 took effect October 1, 2025.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for Q21.10 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- acquired cardiac septal defect (I51.0)
Excludes2 — Not Included Here
Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.
- ostium primum atrial septal defect (type I) (Q21.20)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to Q21.10 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- Q21 — Congenital malformations of cardiac septa
- Q21.0 — Ventricular septal defect
- Q21.1 — Atrial septal defect
- Q21.11 — Secundum atrial septal defect
- Q21.12 — Patent foramen ovale
- Q21.13 — Coronary sinus atrial septal defect
- Q21.14 — Superior sinus venosus atrial septal defect
- Q21.15 — Inferior sinus venosus atrial septal defect
- Q21.16 — Sinus venosus atrial septal defect, unspecified
- Q21.19 — Other specified atrial septal defect
Indexed Clinical Terms (6)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Anomaly, anomalous (congenital) (unspecified type), atrial, septa
- Defect, defective, atrial septal
- Defect, defective, auricular septal
- Defect, defective, septal NOS (heart), atrial
- Deformity, atrial septal
- Deformity, heart (congenital), septum, auricular