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Category · FY2027

P15 Other birth injuries

  • Header · not billable

P15 is not billable. The category heads 9 billable codes in FY2027: the 9 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Injurybirth → P15.9
  • Birthinjury NOS → P15.9
  • Injuryforceps NOS → P15.9

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 16 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96)
  2. P10-P15 Birth trauma (P10-P15)
  3. P15 Other birth injuries
Billable codes
9
Subdivisions
9
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
42

Codes in P15

  1. P15.0
    Birth injury to liver
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Rupture of liver due to birth injury
  2. P15.1
    Birth injury to spleen
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Rupture of spleen due to birth injury
  3. P15.2
    Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
    Billable
  4. P15.3
    Birth injury to eye
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Subconjunctival hemorrhage due to birth injury
    • Traumatic glaucoma due to birth injury
  5. P15.4
    Birth injury to face
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Facial congestion due to birth injury
  6. P15.5
    Birth injury to external genitalia
    Billable
  7. P15.6
    Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
    Billable
  8. P15.8
    Other specified birth injuries
    Billable
  9. P15.9
    Birth injury, unspecified
    Billable

Sources of each column.

Instructions

Notes that also apply

Chapter 16 instructions (Notes 1, Includes 1, Excludes2 5): printed on the chapter 16 page.

Index entries

  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)sternocleidomastoid, birth injury → P15.2
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)sternomastoid, birth injury → P15.2
  • Damageeye, birth injury → P15.3
  • Congestion, congestivefacial, due to birth injury → P15.4
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)face, birth injury → P15.4
  • Eviscerationbirth injury → P15.8
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)birth injury NEC → P15.8
  • Torticollis (intermittent) (spastic)due to birth injury → P15.8
  • Wound, openscalpel, newborn (birth injury) → P15.8
  • Birthcompression during NOS → P15.9
  • Birthinjury NOS → P15.9
  • Compressionduring birth (newborn) → P15.9
  • Injurybirth → P15.9
  • Injurydelivery (newborn) → P15.9
  • Injuryforceps NOS → P15.9
  • Birthinjury NOSliver → P15.0
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)liver (subcapsular) (nontraumatic)birth injury → P15.0
  • Rupture, rupturedliverbirth injury → P15.0
  • Birthinjury NOSspleen → P15.1
  • Rupture, rupturedspleen (traumatic)birth injury → P15.1
  • Rupture, rupturedspleen (traumatic)congenital (birth injury) → P15.1
  • Birthinjury NOSsternomastoid (hematoma) → P15.2
  • Birthinjury NOSeye → P15.3
  • Glaucomatraumaticnewborn (birth injury) → P15.3
  • Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed)subconjunctivalbirth injury → P15.3
  • Luxationeyeball (nontraumatic)birth injury → P15.3
  • Birthinjury NOSface → P15.4
  • Birthinjury NOSexternal genitalia → P15.5
  • Birthinjury NOSpenis → P15.5
  • Birthinjury NOSscrotum → P15.5
  • Birthinjury NOStestes → P15.5
  • Birthinjury NOSvulva → P15.5
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)penis (nontraumatic)birth injury → P15.5
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)scrotum, superficialbirth injury → P15.5
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)testis (nontraumatic)birth injury → P15.5
  • Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact)vulva (nontraumatic) (nonobstetric)newborn (birth injury) → P15.5
  • Birthinjury NOSsubcutaneous fat necrosis → P15.6
  • Necrosis, necrotic (ischemic)fat, fatty (generalized)subcutaneous, due to birth injury → P15.6
  • Birthinjury NOSscalpel wound → P15.8
  • Birthinjury NOSspecified type NEC → P15.8

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