P13.9
P13.9 — Birth injury to skeleton, unspecified
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
P13.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for birth injury to skeleton, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
P13.9 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.
How P13.9 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 P13.9.
- Injury›skeleton, birth injury
- Fracture, traumatic›bone NEC›birth injury
- Birth›injury NOS›fracture›bone
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P13. If P13.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P13.9
- Is P13.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P13.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P13.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).