CPT Codes for Vaginal Delivery | |
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59400 | Routine obstetric care including antepartum care, vaginal delivery (with or without episiotomy and/or forceps) and postpartum care |
59409 | Vaginal delivery only (with or without episiotomy and/or forceps); |
Z38.1 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of single liveborn infant, born outside hospital. The code Z38.1 is valid during the fiscal year 2021 from October 01, 2020 through September 30, 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.#N#The ICD-10-CM code Z38.1 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like born at home, born before arrival, born before arrival of midwife, born before arrival to hospital, born in ambulance , livebirth born before admission to hospital, etc. The code is exempt from present on admission (POA) reporting for inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals.#N#The code Z38.1 is applicable to newborn patients only. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-newborn patient.
It continues until your cervix has become thinner and dilated (stretched) to about 4 inches wide. The second stage is the active stage, in which you begin to push downward. Crowning is when your baby's scalp comes into view. Shortly afterward, your baby is born. In the third stage, you deliver the placenta.
The second stage is the active stage, in which you begin to push downward. Crowning is when your baby's scalp comes into view. Shortly afterward, your baby is born. In the third stage, you deliver the placenta. The placenta is the organ that supplied food and oxygen to your baby during pregnancy.
The General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) crosswalk indicates an approximate mapping between the ICD-10 code Z38.1 its ICD-9 equivalent. The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 code and the ICD-9 code and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29) Hemorrhage in early pregnancy (O20) Excessive vomiting in pregnancy (O21) Venous complications and hemorrhoids in pregna ncy (O22) Infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy (O23) Diabetes in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O24)
2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days. 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery. Use additional code from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.
Obstetric cases require diagnosis codes from chapter 15 of ICD-10-CM, “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium.” It includes categories O00–O9A arranged in the following blocks: 1 O00–O08, Pregnancy with abortive outcome 2 O09, Supervision of high-risk pregnancy 3 O10–O16, Edema, proteinuria, and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium 4 O20–O29, Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy 5 O30–O48, Maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems 6 O60–O77, Complications of labor and delivery 7 O80, O82, Encounter for delivery 8 O85–O92, Complications predominantly related to the puerperium 9 O94–O9A, Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified
The episode of care (delivered, antepartum, postpartum) is no longer a secondary axis of classification for obstetric codes. Instead, the majority of codes have a final character identifying the trimester of pregnancy in which the condition occurred.
They are defined as follows: First trimester: less than 14 weeks 0 days. Second trimester: 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days. Third trimester: 28 weeks 0 days until delivery.