2021 ICD-10-CM Code P24.00
Meconium aspiration without respiratory symptoms
Valid for Submission
P24.00 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of meconium aspiration without respiratory symptoms. The code P24.00 is valid during the fiscal year 2021 from October 01, 2020 through September 30, 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The ICD-10-CM code P24.00 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like neonatal aspiration of meconium or neonatal aspiration syndromes.
ICD-10: | P24.00 |
Short Description: | Meconium aspiration without respiratory symptoms |
Long Description: | Meconium aspiration without respiratory symptoms |
Code Classification
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code P24.00:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Meconium aspiration NOS
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code P24.00 are found in the index:
- - Inhalation
- - meconium (newborn) - P24.00
Approximate Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Neonatal aspiration of meconium
- Neonatal aspiration syndromes
Convert P24.00 to ICD-9 Code
- 770.11 - Meconium asp wo resp sym
Information for Patients
Childbirth Problems
While childbirth usually goes well, complications can happen. They can cause a risk to the mother, baby, or both. Possible complications include
- Preterm (premature) labor, when labor starts before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy
- Problems with the umbilical cord
- Problems with the position of the baby, such as breech, in which the baby is going to come out feet first
- Birth injuries
For some of these problems, the baby may need to be delivered surgically by a Cesarean section.
- Assisted delivery with forceps (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Brachial plexus injury in newborns (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Breech birth (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Caput succedaneum (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Meconium aspiration syndrome (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Premature rupture of membranes (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Lung Diseases
When you breathe, your lungs take in oxygen from the air and deliver it to the bloodstream. The cells in your body need oxygen to work and grow. During a normal day, you breathe nearly 25,000 times. People with lung disease have difficulty breathing. Millions of people in the U.S. have lung disease. If all types of lung disease are lumped together, it is the number three killer in the United States.
The term lung disease refers to many disorders affecting the lungs, such as asthma, COPD, infections like influenza, pneumonia and tuberculosis, lung cancer, and many other breathing problems. Some lung diseases can lead to respiratory failure.
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- Blood gases (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Breath sounds (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Chemical pneumonitis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Chest tube insertion (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Coughing up blood (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Lung disease (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Lung PET scan (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Pulmonary edema (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Pulmonary function tests (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Solitary pulmonary nodule (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Code History
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016 (First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set)