ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P50-P61 › P57 Kernicterus › P57.9
P57.9
Kernicterus, 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 Kernicterus, unspecified
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 the P50-P61 section Hemorrhagic and hematological disorders of newborn (P50-P61)
Excludes1 - never coded here
- congenital stenosis and stricture of bile ducts (Q44.3)
- Crigler-Najjar syndrome (E80.5)
- Dubin-Johnson syndrome (E80.6)
- Gilbert syndrome (E80.4)
- hereditary hemolytic anemias (D55-D58)
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.
- Icterus
- Cholemia
- Yellow > jaundice
- Leukoencephalopathy
- Jaundice > nuclear, newborn
- Kernicterus of newborn
- Jaundice > nuclear, newborn
- Encephalopathia hyperbilirubinemica, newborn
- Encephalopathy > hyperbilirubinemic, newborn
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P57.0 | Kernicterus due to isoimmunization | Valid |
| P57.8 | Other specified kernicterus | Valid |