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ICD-10/Q21.10

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

Atrial septal defect, unspecified is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (Q21.10).

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

View all codes in the Q21 family

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