ICD-10-CM · Chapter 16 · P00–P96
P15.3
Birth injury to eye
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
Quick facts
- Code
- P15.3
- Type
- Billable code
- ICD-10-CM chapter
- Chapter 16 — Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
- Category
- P15 — Other birth injuries
- Specificity
- 4 characters
How coders use this code
ICD-10-CM P15.3 is a billable, fully specified code, so it can be reported directly on a claim to document a diagnosis of birth injury to eye. Coders assign it when the chart documentation supports this level of detail, always matching to the most specific code available and verifying against the chapter-specific guidelines published annually by NCHS/CMS.
Related codes in P15
- P15Other birth injuries
- P15.0Birth injury to liver
- P15.1Birth injury to spleen
- P15.2Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury
- P15.4Birth injury to face
- P15.5Birth injury to external genitalia
- P15.6Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
- P15.8Other specified birth injuries
- P15.9Birth injury, unspecified
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