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P61.2

Anemia of prematurity

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2016 onwards.

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Anemia of prematurity

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 P61 Other perinatal hematological disorders

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • transient hypogammaglobulinemia of infancy (D80.7)

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
P61.0 Transient neonatal thrombocytopenia Valid
P61.1 Polycythemia neonatorum Valid
P61.3 Congenital anemia from fetal blood loss Valid
P61.4 Other congenital anemias, not elsewhere classified Valid
P61.5 Transient neonatal neutropenia Valid
P61.6 Other transient neonatal disorders of coagulation Valid
P61.8 Other specified perinatal hematological disorders Valid
P61.9 Perinatal hematological disorder, unspecified Valid