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P07.26

Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 27 completed weeks

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 2012 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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 27 completed weeks

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
P07.20 Extreme immaturity of newborn, unspecified weeks of gestation Valid
P07.21 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age less than 23 completed weeks Valid
P07.22 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 23 completed weeks Valid
P07.23 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 24 completed weeks Valid
P07.24 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 25 completed weeks Valid
P07.25 Extreme immaturity of newborn, gestational age 26 completed weeks Valid