ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P10-P15 › P12 Birth injury to scalp › P12.1
P12.1
Chignon (from vacuum extraction) due to birth injury
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 Chignon (from vacuum extraction) due to birth injury
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.
- Chignon > newborn
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P12.0 | Cephalhematoma due to birth injury | Valid |
| P12.2 | Epicranial subaponeurotic hemorrhage due to birth injury | Valid |
| P12.3 | Bruising of scalp due to birth injury | Valid |
| P12.4 | Injury of scalp of newborn due to monitoring equipment | Valid |
| P12.8 | Other birth injuries to scalp | Not billable |
| P12.9 | Birth injury to scalp, unspecified | Valid |