P37

P37: Other congenital infectious and parasitic diseases

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

P37 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other congenital infectious and parasitic diseases. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2: not included here, but may coexist

The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.

congenital syphilis (A50.-)
infectious neonatal diarrhea (A00-A09)
necrotizing enterocolitis in newborn (P77.-)
noninfectious neonatal diarrhea (P78.3)
ophthalmia neonatorum due to gonococcus (A54.31)
tetanus neonatorum (A33)

Other codes that can never be billed with P37

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

G91.4Hydrocephalus in diseases classified elsewhere
A32Listeriosis
Q03Congenital hydrocephalus
B37Candidiasis
B58Toxoplasmosis

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead P37

8 child codes. Green means billable.