P39.4

P39.4: Neonatal skin infection

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

P39.4 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for neonatal skin infection. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check P39.4 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

pemphigus neonatorum (L00)
staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (L00)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Neonatal pyoderma

Other codes that can never be billed with P39.4

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

P83Other conditions of integument specific to newborn

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Pyoderma, pyodermia›newborn
Infection, infected, infective›congenital›skin
Infection, infected, infective›newborn›skin
Infection, infected, infective›skin›newborn

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under P39