P12
P12 — Birth injury to scalp
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
P12 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for birth injury to scalp. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with P12
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P12. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P12 alone.
- P13.1Other birth injuries to skull
Risk adjustment
P12 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 P12
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- P12.0Cephalhematoma due to birth injury
- P12.1Chignon (from vacuum extraction) due to birth injury
- P12.2Epicranial subaponeurotic hemorrhage due to birth injury
- P12.3Bruising of scalp due to birth injury
- P12.4Injury of scalp of newborn due to monitoring equipment
- P12.8Other birth injuries to scalp
- P12.9Birth injury to scalp, unspecified
Questions about P12
- Is P12 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. P12 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does P12 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).