Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z38

Liveborn infants according to place of birth and type of delivery

FY2027Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services/Z30–Z39 Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction

Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.

    Z38 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for liveborn infants according to place of birth and type of delivery. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are Z38.0 Single liveborn infant, born in hospital; Z38.1 Single liveborn infant, born outside hospital; Z38.2 Single liveborn infant, unspecified as to place of birth; Z38.3 Twin liveborn infant, born in hospital and 5 more.

    Guidelines tip

    From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.

    On the birth record, a Z38 code is the principal diagnosis and is assigned only once, at the time of birth.

    Guidelines I.C.16.a.2Liveborn infant code Z38Read the official text

    Inclusion terms

    Conditions classified to this code.

    This code
    • This category is for use as the principal code on the initial record of a newborn baby. It is to be used for the initial birth record only. It is not to be used on the mother's record.

    Notes

    Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
    Inherited from Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
    • Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
      • (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
      • (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

    More specific codes under Z38 9