P80.0 — Cold injury syndrome
P80.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for cold injury syndrome. 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.
- mild hypothermia of newborn (P80.8)
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Severe and usually chronic hypothermia associated with a pink flushed appearance, edema and neurological and biochemical abnormalities.
Other codes that can never be billed with P80.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P80.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P80.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
P80.0 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 P80.0 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 P80.0.
- Cold›injury syndrome(newborn)
- Syndrome›cold injury(newborn)
- Hypothermia›neonatal›severe(chronic) (cold injury syndrome)
- Temperature›cold, trauma from›newborn
Code history
P80.0 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P80. If P80.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P80.0
- Is P80.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P80.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P80.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Conditions involving the integument and temperature regulation of newborn (P80-P83).
- What cannot be coded together with P80.0?
- P80.0 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.