P14.2 — Phrenic nerve paralysis due to birth injury
P14.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for phrenic nerve paralysis due to birth injury. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Risk adjustment
P14.2 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
P14.2 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.
- A56722Billing and Coding: Intraoperative Neurophysiological Testing
- A57041Billing and Coding: Somatosensory Testing
- A57204Billing and Coding: MRI and CT Scans of the Head and Neck
- A57597Billing and Coding: Somatosensory Testing
How P14.2 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 P14.2.
- Paralysis, paralytic›nerve›phrenic(birth injury)
- Birth›injury NOS›nerve›phrenic(paralysis)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P14. If P14.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P14.2
- Is P14.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P14.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P14.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).