ICD-10-CM Code P15
Other birth injuries
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code P15 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the nine child codes of P15 that describes the diagnosis 'other birth injuries' in more detail.
- P15 Other birth injuries NON-BILLABLE
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- BILLABLE P15.0 Birth injury to liver
- BILLABLE P15.1 Birth injury to spleen
- BILLABLE P15.2 Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
- BILLABLE P15.3 Birth injury to eye
- BILLABLE P15.4 Birth injury to face
- BILLABLE P15.5 Birth injury to external genitalia
- BILLABLE P15.6 Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
- BILLABLE P15.8 Other specified birth injuries
- BILLABLE P15.9 Birth injury, unspecified
The ICD code P15 is used to code Birth trauma (physical)
Birth trauma (BT) refers to damage of the tissues and organs of a newly delivered child, often as a result of physical pressure or trauma during childbirth. The term also encompasses the long term consequences, often of a cognitive nature, of damage to the brain or cranium. Medical study of birth trauma dates to the 16th century, and the morphological consequences of mishandled delivery are described in Renaissance-era medical literature. Birth injury occupies a unique area of concern and study in the medical canon. In ICD-10 "birth trauma" occupied 49 individual codes (P10-Р15).
Specialty: | Pediatrics |
ICD 9 Code: | 767 |
Position of the child is important for normal birthing procedure, head-first birth is preferred.
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'P15 - Other birth injuries'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code P15. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.