Extremely low birth weight newborn, less than 500 grams

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Extremely low birth weight newborn, less than 500 grams

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from P07 Disorders of newborn related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified

Includes

the listed conditions, without further specification, as the cause of morbidity or additional care, in newborn

Note

When both birth weight and gestational age of the newborn are available, both should be coded with birth weight sequenced before gestational age

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

Birth > weight > low
Birth > weight > low > extremely
Weight > 1000-2499 grams at birth
Weight > 999 grams or less at birth
Low > birthweight > extreme > with weight of > 499 grams or less

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
P07.00	Extremely low birth weight newborn, unspecified weight	Valid
P07.02	Extremely low birth weight newborn, 500-749 grams	Valid
P07.03	Extremely low birth weight newborn, 750-999 grams	Valid