P11.3 — Birth injury to facial nerve
P11.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for birth injury to facial nerve. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Facial palsy due to birth injury
Risk adjustment
P11.3 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.
Medicare coverage
P11.3 is named in 5 Medicare coverage policies — 5 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56503Billing and Coding: Blepharoplasty, Eyelid Surgery, and Brow Lift
- A56722Billing and Coding: Intraoperative Neurophysiological Testing
- A57041Billing and Coding: Somatosensory Testing
- A57597Billing and Coding: Somatosensory Testing
How P11.3 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 P11.3.
- Bell's›palsy, paralysis›infant or newborn
- Disease, diseased›facial nerve›newborn(birth injury)
- Ganglionitis›geniculate›newborn(birth injury)
- Neuritis›facial›newborn(birth injury)
- Palsy›Bell's›newborn
- Palsy›facial›newborn(birth injury)
- Palsy›seventh nerve›newborn
- Paralysis, paralytic›Bell's›newborn
- Paralysis, paralytic›facial›birth injury
- Paralysis, paralytic›facial›congenital
- Paralysis, paralytic›facial›newborn(birth injury)
- Birth›injury NOS›nerve›facial
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P11. If P11.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P11.3
- Is P11.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P11.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P11.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).