P12.2 — Epicranial subaponeurotic hemorrhage due to birth injury
P12.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for epicranial subaponeurotic hemorrhage due to birth injury. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Subgaleal hemorrhage
Risk adjustment
P12.2 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 399 Major Head Injury without Loss of Consciousness0.199 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
P12.2 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 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
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
How P12.2 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 P12.2.
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic›epicranial subaponeurotic, birth injury(massive)
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic›subgaleal
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P12. If P12.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P12.2
- Is P12.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P12.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P12.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).