P10.9 — Unspecified intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury
P10.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for unspecified intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
P10.9 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 248 Intracranial Hemorrhage0.239 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
Medicare coverage
P10.9 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56612Billing and Coding: CT of the Head
How P10.9 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 P10.9.
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic›intracranial›birth injury
- Laceration›intracranial NEC›birth injury
- Birth›injury NOS›intracranial›laceration or hemorrhage
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P10. If P10.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P10.9
- Is P10.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P10.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P10.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).