ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P10-P15 › P15 Other birth injuries › P15.9
P15.9
Birth injury, unspecified
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 Birth injury, unspecified
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.
- Injury > birth
- Injury > delivery
- Birth > injury NOS
- Injury > forceps NOS
- Compression > during birth
- Birth > compression during NOS
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P15.0 | Birth injury to liver | Valid |
| P15.1 | Birth injury to spleen | Valid |
| P15.2 | Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury | Valid |
| P15.3 | Birth injury to eye | Valid |
| P15.4 | Birth injury to face | Valid |
| P15.5 | Birth injury to external genitalia | Valid |
| P15.6 | Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury | Valid |
| P15.8 | Other specified birth injuries | Valid |