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Don’t Use an O Code When Obesity Isn’t Documented as a Pregnancy Complication

Published on Mon Aug 24, 2026

Question: A patient who is six weeks pregnant presents with pelvic pain on their right side. Past medical history includes morbid obesity, and the physical exam documented the body mass index (BMI) as 50. The physician does not mention any pregnancy complication related to morbid obesity, but did list obesity as a diagnosis in the record. Should I assign ICD-10-CM [...]
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