Q43.7 Persistent cloaca

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis. Exempt from present-on-admission (POA) reporting.

Applicable to

• Cloaca NOS

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 393-395 in MDC 06.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 751.5 Other anomalies of intestine (approximate)

Code annotations containing back-references to Q43.7

Back-references to Q43.7

• Type 1 Excludes: Q52.2 Congenital rectovaginal fistula ("cloaca (Q43.7)")

Diagnosis Index entries for Q43.7

• Cloaca (persistent)
• Persistence, persistent (congenital) › cloaca

Nearby codes

• Q43.2 Other congenital functional disorders of colon
• Q43.3 Congenital malformations of intestinal fixation
• Q43.4 Duplication of intestine
• Q43.5 Ectopic anus
• Q43.6 Congenital fistula of rectum and anus
• Q43.7 Persistent cloaca (this code)
• Q43.8 Other specified congenital malformations of intestine
• Q43.9 Congenital malformation of intestine, unspecified