Obesity complicating pregnancy, second trimester. O99.212 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM O99.212 became effective on October 1, 2018.
Women with obesity have a greater risk of pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes. Their babies also have a higher risk of premature birth and certain birth defects....
Obesity itself is an inflammatory condition. When people gain a lot of weight the fat cells make a lot of hormones and chemicals that cause inflammation and those affect the developing fetus. And it can cause a lot of problems.
ICD-10-CM Code for Obesity complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester O99. 210.
Encounter for supervision of normal pregnancy, unspecified, unspecified trimester. Z34. 90 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM Z34.
O09. 90 - Supervision of high risk pregnancy, unspecified, unspecified trimester. ICD-10-CM.
Code E66* is the diagnosis code used for Overweight and Obesity. It is a disorder marked by an abnormally high, unhealthy amount of body fat. Excess body weight can come from fat, muscle, bone, and/or water retention.
ICD-10 code Z36 for Encounter for antenatal screening of mother is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Factors influencing health status and contact with health services .
OB Diagnoses Coding with ICD-10-CM. 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: O00–O08, Pregnancy with abortive outcome. O09, Supervision of high-risk pregnancy.
A high-risk pregnancy is a pregnancy that involves increased health risks for the pregnant person, unborn baby or both. Certain health conditions and your age (being over 35 or under 17 when pregnant) can make a pregnancy high risk. These pregnancies require close monitoring to reduce the chance of complications.
For high-risk and complications of pregnancy, use the code from Chapter 15, another code for pre-existing conditions, if any, and the weeks of gestation code. It would seem that if your Medicaid program wants the visits billed as they happen, it is more likely that you'll be paid.
Encounter for full-term uncomplicated deliveryICD-10 code O80 for Encounter for full-term uncomplicated delivery is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium .
Overweight and obesity ICD-10-CM E66.
E66. 01 is morbid (severe) obesity from excess calories.
ICD-10 code E66. 01 for Morbid (severe) obesity due to excess calories is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases .
Obesity complicating pregnancy, first trimester 1 O99.211 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. 2 The 2021 edition of ICD-10-CM O99.211 became effective on October 1, 2020. 3 This is the American ICD-10-CM version of O99.211 - other international versions of ICD-10 O99.211 may differ.
O99.211 is applicable to maternity patients aged 12 - 55 years inclusive. O99.211 is applicable to mothers in the first trimester of pregnancy, which is defined as less than 14 weeks since the first day of the last menstrual period. Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period.
The Pregnancy ICD 10 code belong to the Chapter 15 – Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Puerperium of the ICD-10-CM and these codes take sequencing priority over all the other chapter codes.
Ectopic pregnancy (Code range- O00.00 – O00.91) – This is a potentially life-threatening condition in which the fertilize egg is implanted outside the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes or occasionally in the abdomen or ovaries.
Galactorrhea. Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (Code range O94-O9A) Sequelae (Late effects) of complication of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O94)- Includes conditions or late effects that may occur any time after the puerperium.
Morbidly adherent placenta (Placenta accrete, Placenta increta, Placenta percreta) Placental infarction. Placenta previa (Code range O44.00- O44.53)- Condition in which the placenta is implanted in the lower parts of the uterus.
Hydatidiform mole (Code range- O01.0 – O01.9) – Also known as molar pregnancy is an abnormal fertilized egg or a non-cancerous tumor of the placental tissue which mimics a normal pregnancy initially but later leads to vaginal bleeding along with severe nausea and vomiting.
If the provider has documented that the pregnancy is incidental to the visit, which means that the reason for the visit was not pregnancy related and the provider did not care for the pregnancy, the code to be used is Z33.1, Pregnant state, incidental and not the chapter 15 codes.
Coding for Pregnancy is sometimes difficult as there are multiple factors that need to be taken into consideration like the trimester, fetus identification, whether it is a high risk pregnancy or a normal pregnancy and other additional code like the code for the weeks of gestation from chapter 22.