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FY2027

P12.0 — Cephalhematoma due to birth injury

Billable

Is P12.0 billable?

Yes — P12.0 is billable for FY2027. P12.0 is a valid, billable ICD-10-CM code at the highest level of specificity in its branch. P12.0 may be submitted for encounters from October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027.

P12.0 at a glance

CodeP12.0
DescriptionCephalhematoma due to birth injury
BillableYes
Code setICD-10-CM FY2027
Valid for encountersOctober 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027

Which MS-DRGs does P12.0 group to?

P12.0 sits in MDC 15 and helps define the logic of 1 MS-DRG (version 44, FY2027). Which one a stay actually groups to also depends on procedures and secondary diagnoses.

  • 795Normal Newbornmedical

How is P12.0 listed in the Alphabetic Index?

These are the routes through the Alphabetic Index that lead to P12.0. They show the wording a clinician may have documented, which often differs from the Tabular description.

  • Cephalematoma, cephalhematoma › newborn (calcified)

Excludes2 — not included here — inherited from Chapter 16

The conditions below are not part of P12.0, but a patient may have both at the same time. When documentation supports it, P12.0 and the excluded code may both be reported.

  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • tetanus neonatorum (A33)

How long has P12.0 existed?

P12.0 has been in ICD-10-CM since at least FY2016, the earliest fiscal year on record here.

Derived from the official order files for FY2016–FY2026. FY2017 and FY2020 publish no order file, so those years are not covered.

Which codes are confused with P12.0?

ICD-10-CM declares these codes mutually exclusive with P12.0 — exactly one of each pair can be correct for a given encounter.

What other codes are in the P12 family? (6)