ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P35-P39 › P36 Bacterial sepsis of newborn › P36.2
Sepsis of newborn due to Staphylococcus aureus
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 Sepsis of newborn due to Staphylococcus aureus
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 P36 Bacterial sepsis of newborn
Use additional code
- code(s), if applicable, to identify severe sepsis (R65.2-) and associated acute organ dysfunction(s)
Includes
- congenital sepsis
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.
- Neonatal
- Sepsis > umbilical, umbilical cord
- Bacterium, bacteria, bacterial > in blood
- Newborn > sepsis > due to > Staphylococcus > aureus
- Sepsis > newborn > due to > Staphylococcus > aureus
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P36.0 | Sepsis of newborn due to streptococcus, group B | Valid |
| P36.1 | Sepsis of newborn due to other and unspecified streptococci | Not billable |
| P36.3 | Sepsis of newborn due to other and unspecified staphylococci | Not billable |
| P36.4 | Sepsis of newborn due to Escherichia coli | Valid |
| P36.5 | Sepsis of newborn due to anaerobes | Valid |
| P36.8 | Other bacterial sepsis of newborn | Valid |
| P36.9 | Bacterial sepsis of newborn, unspecified | Valid |