ICD 10 Coding Alert
Your 669.7x Cesarean Delivery Codes Merge into 1 Code in ICD-10
Hint: You must include an outcome code.
When you report the cesarean delivery code in ICD-10, you'll have one option -- but make sure you include these additional codes as well.
A cesarean delivery means the physician makes one or more incisions through the mother's abdomen and uterus to deliver one or more babies.
Currently, you will choose a cesarean delivery code from one of two options:
ICD-10: In the future, you will use only one option: O82 (Encounter for cesarean delivery without indication). In other words, your two cesarean delivery codes "without indication" become one code in ICD-10: O82.
This is how you will locate these codes in the Alphabetic Index:
Admission (for) - see also Encounter (for)
- delivery, full-term, uncomplicated O80
-- cesarean, without indication O82
Delivery (childbirth) (labor)
- cesarean (for)
-- without indication O82
Encounter (with health service) (for)
- delivery, full-term, uncomplicated O80
-- cesarean, without indication O82
Coder Tips: You have to include a delivery code from the appropriate procedure classification. Also, you must include an outcome of delivery code (Z37.0).
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