P27.8: Other chronic respiratory diseases originating in the perinatal period
P27.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other chronic respiratory diseases originating in the perinatal period. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check P27.8 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Congenital pulmonary fibrosis
- Ventilator lung in newborn
Other codes that can never be billed with P27.8
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- J95.851Ventilator associated pneumonia
Risk adjustment
P27.8 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 213 Cardio-Respiratory Failure and Shock0.370 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. Look up the whole chart to see which of its HCCs the hierarchy would zero.
Medicare coverage
P27.8 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy: 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.
- A56580Billing and Coding: Computerized Axial Tomography (CT), Thorax
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Ventilator lung, newborn
- Fibrosis, fibrotic›lung›congenital
- Fibrosis, fibrotic›pulmonary›congenital
- Disease, diseased›respiratory›chronic NOS›newborn›specified NEC
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.