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P80.0

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Cold injury syndrome

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

A serious condition where a newborn's body temperature drops dangerously low due to exposure to cold environmental conditions, causing systemic effects.

Coding Tips

  • •Document the environmental circumstances and the lowest recorded temperature if available
  • •Distinguish from other hypothermia codes by confirming this is the classic cold injury syndrome presentation

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • mild hypothermia of newborn (P80.8)

Code Hierarchy

└P80Hypothermia of newborn└P80.0Cold injury syndrome
└P80.0Cold injury syndrome

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