P15.3
Birth injury to eye
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 5 never code together
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Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 4
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Inclusion terms
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage due to birth injury
- Traumatic glaucoma due to birth injury
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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 5
- Birth
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) R58
- subconjunctival — see also Hemorrhage, conjunctiva
- birth injury P15.3
- subconjunctival — see also Hemorrhage, conjunctiva
- Luxation — see also Dislocation
- eyeball (nontraumatic) — see Luxation, globe
- birth injury P15.3
- eyeball (nontraumatic) — see Luxation, globe
- Damage
- eye, birth injury P15.3
- Glaucoma H40.9
- traumatic — see also Glaucoma, secondary, trauma
- newborn (birth injury) P15.3
- traumatic — see also Glaucoma, secondary, trauma
Alongside this code 8 same parent — P15
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.