P11.5

Birth injury to spine and spinal cord

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 5 never code together

P00-P96chapter

Excludes2

congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
tetanus neonatorum (A33)A33

Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.

Instructional notes 3

P11.5code

Inclusion terms

Fracture of spine due to birth injury

P00-P96chapter

Notes

Codes from this chapter are for use on newborn records only, never on maternal records

Includes

conditions that have their origin in the fetal or perinatal period (before birth through the first 28 days after birth) even if morbidity occurs later

Index entries leading here 10

Birth
- injury NOS P15.9
  - fracture
    - spine P11.5
  - meninges
    - spinal cord P11.5
  - paralysis
    - spinal P11.5
  - rupture
    - spinal cord P11.5
  - spinal cord P11.5
  - spine P11.5
Paralysis, paralytic (complete) (incomplete) G83.9
- birth injury P14.9
  - spinal cord P11.5
Dislocation (articular)
- spine
  - due to birth trauma P11.5
Rupture, ruptured
- spinal cord — see also Injury, spinal cord, by region
  - due to injury at birth P11.5
  - newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Laceration
- spinal cord (meninges) — see also Injury, spinal cord, by region
  - due to injury at birth P11.5
  - newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Fracture, traumatic (abduction) (adduction) (separation) T14.8
- vertebra, vertebral (arch) (body) (column) (neural arch) (pedicle) (spinous process) (transverse process)
  - newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact) — see also Contusion
- spinal (cord) (meninges) — see also Injury, spinal cord, by region
  - newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Hematomyelia (central) G95.19
- newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Hematorachis, hematorrhachis G95.19
- newborn (birth injury) P11.5
Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) R58
- spinal (cord) G95.19
  - newborn (birth injury) P11.5

Alongside this code 6 same parent — P11

P11.0 Cerebral edema due to birth injury P11.1 Other specified brain damage due to birth injury P11.2 Unspecified brain damage due to birth injury P11.3 Birth injury to facial nerve P11.4 Birth injury to other cranial nerves P11.9 Birth injury to central nervous system, unspecified

Medications 5

24 Spinal Cord Diseases drugs 9 Spinal Cord Injuries drugs 1 Spinal Cord Neoplasms drugs 1 Spinal Cord Ischemia drugs 1 Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases drugs

MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: P11
Block: P10-P15
Siblings: 6

Present FY2024–FY2027.

P11.5

Risk adjustment

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