ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P35-P39 › P35 Congenital viral diseases › P35.9

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

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 P35 Congenital viral diseases

Includes

• infections acquired in utero or during birth

Inherited from the P35-P39 section Infections specific to the perinatal period (P35-P39)

Excludes2 - not included here

• asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection status (Z21)
• congenital gonococcal infection (A54.-)
• congenital pneumonia (P23.-)
• congenital syphilis (A50.-)
• human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B20)
• infant botulism (A48.51)
• infectious diseases not specific to the perinatal period (A00-B99, J09, J10.-)
• intestinal infectious disease (A00-A09)
• laboratory evidence of human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] (R75)
• tetanus neonatorum (A33)

Also known as

• Infections acquired in utero, during birth via the umbilicus, or during the first 28 days after birth

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.

• TORCH infection
• Infection, infected, infective > TORCH
• Infection, infected, infective > specific > to perinatal period
• Disease, diseased > viral, virus > congenital
• Infection, infected, infective > congenital > virus
• Disease, diseased > infectious, infective > congenital > viral

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
P35.0	Congenital rubella syndrome	Valid
P35.1	Congenital cytomegalovirus infection	Valid
P35.2	Congenital herpesviral [herpes simplex] infection	Valid
P35.3	Congenital viral hepatitis	Valid
P35.4	Congenital Zika virus disease	Valid
P35.8	Other congenital viral diseases	Valid