P10
Header — not billableIntracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury
The ICD-10 code for intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury is P10.
P10 is a non-billable header code. It groups related conditions but cannot be used on its own for reimbursement — select one of the 7 more specific codes below.
Clinical notes
Excludes1 (not coded here)
An Excludes1 note is a pure exclusion: the excluded condition and this code should never be reported together, because the two conditions cannot occur at the same time (e.g. a congenital form vs. an acquired form of the same disease).
Documentation support
General coding-documentation guidance — not a substitute for payer-specific requirements or professional coding judgment.
- •This is a non-billable header code. Documentation must support a more specific child code before this diagnosis can be reported on a claim.
- •Confirm the excluded condition(s) listed above are not also present — Excludes1 conditions cannot be coded together with this one.
- •As a general rule, code to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation in the medical record.
Child codes under P10
- P10.0Subdural hemorrhage due to birth injury
- P10.1Cerebral hemorrhage due to birth injury
- P10.2Intraventricular hemorrhage due to birth injury
- P10.3Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to birth injury
- P10.4Tentorial tear due to birth injury
- P10.8Other intracranial lacerations and hemorrhages due to birth injury
- P10.9Unspecified intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury
Related codes in this category
- P11Other birth injuries to central nervous systemnon-billable header
- P12Birth injury to scalpnon-billable header
- P13Birth injury to skeletonnon-billable header
- P14Birth injury to peripheral nervous systemnon-billable header
- P15Other birth injuriesnon-billable header
- P10Intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injurynon-billable header