P15
P15 — Other birth injuries
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
P15 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other birth injuries. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with P15
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P15. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P15 alone.
Risk adjustment
P15 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 P15
9 child codes. Green means billable.
- P15.0Birth injury to liver
- P15.1Birth injury to spleen
- P15.2Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
- P15.3Birth injury to eye
- P15.4Birth injury to face
- P15.5Birth injury to external genitalia
- P15.6Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
- P15.8Other specified birth injuries
- P15.9Birth injury, unspecified
Questions about P15
- Is P15 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. P15 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does P15 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Birth trauma (P10-P15).