Exceptionally large newborn baby

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 Exceptionally large newborn baby

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 P08 Disorders of newborn related to long gestation and high birth weight

Includes

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

Note

When both birth weight and gestational age of the newborn are available, priority of assignment should be given to birth weight

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 > 4500 grams or more
Heavy-for-dates NEC > exceptionally
Large-for-dates NEC > exceptionally
Excess, excessive, excessively > large > infant

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
P08.1	Other heavy for gestational age newborn	Valid
P08.2	Late newborn, not heavy for gestational age	Not billable