P36.3
P36.3 — Sepsis of newborn due to other and unspecified staphylococci
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
P36.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for sepsis of newborn due to other and unspecified staphylococci. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
P36.3 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 P36.3
2 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P36. If P36.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- P36.0Sepsis of newborn due to streptococcus, group B
- P36.1Sepsis of newborn due to other and unspecified streptococci
- P36.2Sepsis of newborn due to Staphylococcus aureus
- P36.4Sepsis of newborn due to Escherichia coli
- P36.5Sepsis of newborn due to anaerobes
- P36.8Other bacterial sepsis of newborn
- P36.9Bacterial sepsis of newborn, unspecified
Questions about P36.3
- Is P36.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. P36.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does P36.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Infections specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39).