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P10

Non-Billable (Header)

Intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury

Last updated: FY2026 ICD-10-CM (Oct 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2026) | CMS-HCC V28 (100% phase-in, PY2026)

What This Code Means

P10 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury. P10 sits in the ICD-10-CM chapter for certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (p00-p96), within the section covering birth trauma (p10-p15).

Header codes like P10 cannot be reported on claims directly — they organize child codes that share clinical context but the actual diagnosis must be coded to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation. Coders should look at P10's child codes and select the one that matches the patient's documented presentation, since payers reject header codes submitted as the primary diagnosis. For risk adjustment workflows, header codes never contribute to a Medicare Advantage member's RAF score on their own; only billable child codes that happen to map to a payment HCC affect risk-adjusted plan payments.

HCC Buddy maintains structured V28 and V24 mapping, RAF weights, and MEAT documentation criteria for P10 sourced directly from the CMS-HCC risk adjustment model files and the CMS ICD-10-CM code set.

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • intracranial hemorrhage of newborn NOS (P52.9)
  • intracranial hemorrhage of newborn due to anoxia or hypoxia (P52.-)
  • nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage of newborn (P52.-)

Child Codes

Code Hierarchy

P10Intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury
P10Intracranial laceration and hemorrhage due to birth injury

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