Q37.3 Cleft soft palate with unilateral cleft lip

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Exempt from present-on-admission (POA) reporting.

Applicable to

• Cleft soft palate with cleft lip NOS

Applies from Q37 Cleft palate with cleft lip

Includes

• cheilopalatoschisis

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 011-013 in MDC PRE.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 749.21 Cleft palate with cleft lip, unilateral, complete (approximate)
• 749.22 Cleft palate with cleft lip, unilateral, incomplete (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to Q37.3

Back-references to Q37

• Type 1 Excludes: Q18 Other congenital malformations of face and neck ("cleft lip and cleft palate (Q35-Q37)")
• Type 1 Excludes: Q35 Cleft palate ("cleft palate with cleft lip (Q37.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: Q36 Cleft lip ("cleft lip with cleft palate (Q37.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: Q38.0 Congenital malformations of lips, not elsewhere classified ("cleft lip with cleft palate (Q37.-)")
• Type 1 Excludes: Q38.5 Congenital malformations of palate, not elsewhere classified ("cleft palate with cleft lip (Q37.-)")

Diagnosis Index entries for Q37.3

• Cleft (congenital) › lip (unilateral) › with cleft palate › soft
• Cleft (congenital) › palate › soft › with › cleft lip (unilateral)

Nearby codes

• Q37 Cleft palate with cleft lip
• Q37.0 Cleft hard palate with bilateral cleft lip
• Q37.1 Cleft hard palate with unilateral cleft lip
• Q37.2 Cleft soft palate with bilateral cleft lip
• Q37.3 Cleft soft palate with unilateral cleft lip (this code)
• Q37.4 Cleft hard and soft palate with bilateral cleft lip
• Q37.5 Cleft hard and soft palate with unilateral cleft lip
• Q37.8 Unspecified cleft palate with bilateral cleft lip
• Q37.9 Unspecified cleft palate with unilateral cleft lip