ICD-10-CM › P00-P96 › P76-P78 › P78 Other perinatal digestive system disorders › P78.0
Perinatal intestinal perforation
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 Perinatal intestinal perforation
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 P78 Other perinatal digestive system disorders
Excludes1 - never coded here
- cystic fibrosis (E84.0-E84.9)
- neonatal gastrointestinal hemorrhages (P54.0-P54.3)
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
- Omentitis
- Epiploitis
- Enteroperitonitis
- Irritation > peritoneum
- Conditions arising in the perinatal period
- Infection, infected, infective > peritoneal
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > peritoneum
- Inflammation, inflamed, inflammatory > retroperitoneal
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > bowel
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > cecum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > colon
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > ileum
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > sigmoid
- Meconium > peritonitis
- Peritonitis > meconium
- Peritonitis > neonatal > meconium
- Perforation, perforated > bowel > newborn
- Perforation, perforated > colon > newborn
- Perforation, perforated > ileum > newborn
- Perforation, perforated > rectum > newborn
- Perforation, perforated > sigmoid > newborn
- Newborn > affected by > meconium peritonitis
- Newborn > affected by > intestinal perforation
- Perforation, perforated > intestine NEC > newborn
- Perforation, perforated > intestine NEC > ulcerative NEC > newborn
- Ulcer, ulcerated, ulcerating, ulceration, ulcerative > intestine, intestinal > perforating > newborn
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P78.1 | Other neonatal peritonitis | Valid |
| P78.2 | Neonatal hematemesis and melena due to swallowed maternal blood | Valid |
| P78.3 | Noninfective neonatal diarrhea | Valid |
| P78.8 | Other specified perinatal digestive system disorders | Not billable |
| P78.9 | Perinatal digestive system disorder, unspecified | Valid |