O68Billable
Labor and delivery complicated by abnormality of fetal acid-base balance
Chapter 15: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
- •Fetal acidemia complicating labor and delivery
- •Fetal acidosis complicating labor and delivery
- •Fetal alkalosis complicating labor and delivery
- •Fetal metabolic acidemia complicating labor and delivery
Billable Code
O68 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for fetal intolerance of labor
fetal intolerance of labor
View TemplatesLabor and delivery complicated by fetal stress
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Excludes1
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Excludes1
From O00-O9A:
- •supervision of normal pregnancy (Z34.-)
Excludes2
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Excludes2
Use Additional Code
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Use Additional Code
From O00-O9A:
- •code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.
Notes
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Notes
From O00-O9A:
- •CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- •Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- •Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- •1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- •2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- •3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery