P24.31
P24.31: Neonatal aspiration of milk and regurgitated food with respiratory symptoms
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
P24.31 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for neonatal aspiration of milk and regurgitated food with respiratory symptoms. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check P24.31 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberUse additional code
Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.
- code to identify any secondary pulmonary hypertension, if applicable (I27.2-)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Neonatal aspiration of milk and regurgitated food with pneumonia
- Neonatal aspiration of milk and regurgitated food with pneumonitis
Other codes that can never be billed with P24.31
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Aspiration›milk›with›pneumonia(pneumonitis)
- Aspiration›milk›with›respiratory symptoms
- Pneumonia›aspiration›newborn›food(regurgitated)
- Pneumonia›aspiration›newborn›milk
- Pneumonia›aspiration›newborn›stomach contents
- Aspiration›vomitus›newborn›with›pneumonia(pneumonitis)
- Aspiration›vomitus›newborn›with›respiratory symptoms
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.