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O86.01
Billable

Infection of obstetric surgical wound, superficial incisional site

Chapter 15: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Inclusion Terms

2 items
  • Subcutaneous abscess following an obstetrical procedure
  • Stitch abscess following an obstetrical procedure

Billable Code

O86.01 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

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Infection of Surgical Wound

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.

Inclusion Terms

2 items

From O86.0:

  • Infected cesarean delivery wound following delivery
  • Infected perineal repair following delivery

Excludes1

4 items

From O00-O9A:

  • supervision of normal pregnancy (Z34.-)

From O86.0:

  • complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified (T81.4-)
  • postprocedural fever NOS (R50.82)
  • postprocedural retroperitoneal abscess (K68.11)

Excludes2

6 items

From O00-O9A:

  • mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium (F53.-)
  • obstetrical tetanus (A34)
  • postpartum necrosis of pituitary gland (E23.0)
  • puerperal osteomalacia (M83.0)

From O86:

  • infection during labor (O75.3)
  • obstetrical tetanus (A34)

Use Additional Code

2 items

From O00-O9A:

  • code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.

From O86:

  • code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

Notes

6 items

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
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