P03.9 — Newborn affected by complication of labor and delivery, unspecified
P03.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for newborn affected by complication of labor and delivery, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above P03.9
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of P03.9, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Other codes that can never be billed with P03.9
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P03.9. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P03.9 alone.
- P00.7Newborn affected by other medical procedures on mother, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
P03.9 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How P03.9 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to P03.9.
- Newborn›affected by›complications of labor and delivery
- Newborn›affected by›delivery
- Newborn›affected by›maternal›delivery
- Newborn›affected by›maternal›labor and delivery
Code history
P03.9 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P03. If P03.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- P03.0Newborn affected by breech delivery and extraction
- P03.1Newborn affected by other malpresentation, malposition and disproportion during labor and delivery
- P03.2Newborn affected by forceps delivery
- P03.3Newborn affected by delivery by vacuum extractor [ventouse]
- P03.4Newborn affected by Cesarean delivery
- P03.5Newborn affected by precipitate delivery
- P03.6Newborn affected by abnormal uterine contractions
- P03.8Newborn affected by other specified complications of labor and delivery
Questions about P03.9
- Is P03.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P03.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P03.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Newborn affected by maternal factors and by complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery (P00-P04).