P03.82 — Meconium passage during delivery
P03.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for meconium passage during delivery. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Other codes that can never be billed with P03.82
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at P03.82. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading P03.82 alone.
Risk adjustment
P03.82 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
P03.82 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How P03.82 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to P03.82.
- Passage›meconium during delivery(newborn)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share P03.8. If P03.82 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about P03.82
- Is P03.82 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. P03.82 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does P03.82 sit in the tabular list?
- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96), in the block Newborn affected by maternal factors and by complications of pregnancy, labor, and delivery (P00-P04).
- What cannot be coded together with P03.82?
- P03.82 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.