P29.30 — Pulmonary hypertension of newborn
P29.30 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pulmonary hypertension of newborn. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension of newborn
Other codes that can never be billed with P29.30
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P29.30. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P29.30 alone.
- I27.0Primary pulmonary hypertension
Risk adjustment
P29.30 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
P29.30 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies — 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
- A56781Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
- A57306Billing and Coding: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE)
How P29.30 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 P29.30.
- Hypertension, hypertensive›newborn›pulmonary(persistent)
- Hypertension, hypertensive›pulmonary›of newborn(persistent)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P29.3. If P29.30 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P29.30
- Is P29.30 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P29.30 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P29.30 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Respiratory and cardiovascular disorders specific to the perinatal period (P19-P29).