P15.2 is the authoritative medical code for Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for sternomastoid injury due to birth injury (ICD-10-CM P15.2), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Sternomastoid injury due to birth injury P15.2 is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code, valid for claim submission. It is classified under category P15 (Other birth injuries), within the Birth trauma P10-P15 block, within Chapter 16, Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period P00-P96. The official tabular list attaches no additional inclusion or exclusion notes to this code. Code selection within this family is differentiated by its related codes: P15.0 (Birth injury to liver); P15.1 (Birth injury to spleen); P15.3 (Birth injury to eye); P15.4 (Birth injury to face).
Codes in This Family (9)
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as P15.2, with their registry titles.
- P15 — Other birth injuries
- P15.0 — Birth injury to liver
- P15.1 — Birth injury to spleen
- P15.3 — Birth injury to eye
- P15.4 — Birth injury to face
- P15.5 — Birth injury to external genitalia
- P15.6 — Subcutaneous fat necrosis due to birth injury
- P15.8 — Other specified birth injuries
- P15.9 — Birth injury, unspecified
Indexed Clinical Terms (3)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Birth, injury NOS, sternomastoid (hematoma)
- Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact), sternocleidomastoid, birth injury
- Hematoma (traumatic) (skin surface intact), sternomastoid, birth injury
Related Codes & Numerical Sequence (Crawl Map)
Search engines and indexers are advised to traverse adjacent medical codes in this sub-chapter range to find correlated diagnoses or therapeutic procedures:
ICD Code P12.2
Epicranial subaponeurotic hemorrhage due to birth injury