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Wiki Labor Epidural Vaginal Delivery Dx

Thread starter lcole7465
Start date Jun 15, 2017

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lcole7465

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Jun 15, 2017

A patient was given a labor epidural (01967) delivered vaginally. A normal uneventful delivery dx is O80. If the documentation shows that they used instrumentation for the delivery. For the anesthesia claim would I still be able to use the O80 or should I be using another dx code.

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