P08
P08 — Disorders of newborn related to long gestation and high birth weight
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
P08 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for disorders of newborn related to long gestation and high birth weight. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Includes
Conditions this code covers.
- the listed conditions, without further specification, as causes of morbidity or additional care, in newborn
Notes
Additional guidance from the ICD-10-CM tabular list.
- When both birth weight and gestational age of the newborn are available, priority of assignment should be given to birth weight
Other codes that can never be billed with P08
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P08. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P08 alone.
- P08.1Other heavy for gestational age newborn
Risk adjustment
P08 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.
Code to one of these instead P08
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about P08
- Is P08 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. P08 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does P08 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Disorders of newborn related to length of gestation and fetal growth (P05-P08).