ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P05-P08 › P08.2 Late newborn, not heavy for gestational age › P08.21
Post-term newborn
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
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 Post-term newborn
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.
- Neonatal
- Post-term > infant
- Newborn > post-term
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P08.22 | Prolonged gestation of newborn | Valid |