P91.2
P91.2 — Neonatal cerebral leukomalacia
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
P91.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for neonatal cerebral leukomalacia. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Periventricular leukomalacia
Risk adjustment
P91.2 risk-adjusts. Under the CMS-HCC V28 model it maps to this category:
- HCC 202 Coma, Brain Compression/Anoxic Damage0.543 RAF
Coefficient shown for the Community Non-dual Aged segment. A higher HCC in the same hierarchy will suppress this one, so capturing it does not always add score.
How P91.2 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 P91.2.
- Leukomalacia, cerebral, newborn
- Leukomalacia, cerebral, newborn›periventricular
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P91. If P91.2 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- P91.0Neonatal cerebral ischemia
- P91.1Acquired periventricular cysts of newborn
- P91.3Neonatal cerebral irritability
- P91.4Neonatal cerebral depression
- P91.5Neonatal coma
- P91.6Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy [HIE]
- P91.8Other specified disturbances of cerebral status of newborn
- P91.9Disturbance of cerebral status of newborn, unspecified
Questions about P91.2
- Is P91.2 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P91.2 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P91.2 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Other disorders originating in the perinatal period (P90-P96).