ICD-10 code for delivery newborn injury

The ICD-10-CM code for delivery newborn injury is P15.9 (Birth injury, unspecified). The official index lists 1 more specific code, so check the documentation for details such as type, cause, site or severity before settling on P15.9.

Within P15, choose P15.9 (Birth injury, unspecified) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: birth injury to liver (P15.0), birth injury to spleen (P15.1), Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury (P15.2), birth injury to eye (P15.3), birth injury to face (P15.4), birth injury to external genitalia (P15.5), subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury (P15.6) and other specified birth injuries (P15.8).

It is not a CC or MCC, so as a secondary diagnosis it doesn't change the MS-DRG severity level.

In MS-DRG v44.0, it is part of the grouping logic for DRG 794 (Neonate with Other Significant Problems, relative weight 1.4935), in MDC 15 (Newborns and Other Neonates with Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period), as a principal or secondary diagnosis. The DRG a claim lands in depends on the principal diagnosis, procedures and any CC/MCC secondary diagnoses.