kmikensana
Contributor
My co-worker and I wanted clarification on delivery codes sequencing. Which do we code first: weeks of gestation or outcome of delivery?
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Wiki Outcome of delivery and weeks of gestastion
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mitchellde
True Blue
The weeks of gestation and outcome of delivery are both secondary only codes and will not matter which ones goes before the other. You need a delivery code to be first listed.
kmikensana
Contributor
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valleyobgynut
Networker
I took the AAPC ICD-10 boot camp class and did the OB/GYN Specialty one as well. You don't use weeks gestation or the delivery. Its only or antepartum stuff. If you had a patient with a normal bag delivery you would code O80,Z37.O and thats all. No weeks gestation. This was also a question on the exam and it was correct coded this way.