P70.1 — Syndrome of infant of a diabetic mother
P70.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for syndrome of infant of a diabetic mother. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Newborn (with hypoglycemia) affected by maternal (pre-existing) diabetes mellitus
Other codes that can never be billed with P70.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P70.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P70.1 alone.
Risk adjustment
P70.1 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.
How P70.1 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 P70.1.
- Hypoglycemia›in infant of diabetic mother
- Infant›of diabetic mother(syndrome of)
- Syndrome›infant›of diabetic mother
- Newborn›affected by›maternal›diabetes mellitus(pre-existing)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P70. If P70.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- P70.0Syndrome of infant of mother with gestational diabetes
- P70.2Neonatal diabetes mellitus
- P70.3Iatrogenic neonatal hypoglycemia
- P70.4Other neonatal hypoglycemia
- P70.8Other transitory disorders of carbohydrate metabolism of newborn
- P70.9Transitory disorder of carbohydrate metabolism of newborn, unspecified
Questions about P70.1
- Is P70.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P70.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P70.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Transitory endocrine and metabolic disorders specific to newborn (P70-P74).
- What cannot be coded together with P70.1?
- P70.1 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.