P24.01

Meconium aspiration with respiratory symptoms

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

Exclusions 7 never code together

P24.0code

Excludes1

meconium passage (without aspiration) during delivery (P03.82 )P03.82
meconium staining (P96.83 )P96.83

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

Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.

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

Instructional notes 7

P24.01code

Inclusion terms

Meconium aspiration pneumonia
Meconium aspiration pneumonitis
Meconium aspiration syndrome NOS

Use additional code

code to identify any secondary pulmonary hypertension, if applicable (I27.2-)I27.2-

P24code

Includes

aspiration in utero and during delivery

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 5

Pneumonia (acute) (double) (migratory) (purulent) (septic) (unresolved) J18.9
- aspiration J69.0
  - newborn P24.81
    - meconium P24.01
- meconium P24.01
Aspiration
- meconium (newborn) (without respiratory symptoms) P24.00
  - with
    - respiratory symptoms P24.01
    - pneumonitis (pneumonitis) P24.01
Syndrome — see also Disease
- aspiration, of newborn — see Aspiration, by substance, with pneumonia
  - meconium P24.01
Inhalation
- meconium (newborn) P24.00
  - with
    - with respiratory symptoms P24.01
    - pneumonia (pneumonitis) P24.01
Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) J98.4
- meconium P24.01

Alongside this code 1 same parent — P24.0

P24.00 Meconium aspiration without respiratory symptoms

Medications 2

3 Respiratory Aspiration drugs 102 Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory 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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Risk adjustment

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: P24.0
Block: P19-P29
Siblings: 1

Present FY2024–FY2027.