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ICD-10-CM Code for Other infection during labor O75.3

ICD-10 code O75.3 for Other infection during labor is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium .

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Official Long Descriptor

Other infection during labor
Sepsis during labo
Use additional code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

O75

Excludes2: puerperal (postpartum) infection (O86.-)
puerperal (postpartum) sepsis (O85)

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Coding Inpatient Postpartum Care After Delivery of Stillborn En Route to Hospital complicated delivery outside of hospital delivery in vehicle fetal demise at term
I have a patient who suffered a placental abruption and preterm birth of a stillborn infant en route to the hospital. She was admitted for postpartum care that day by our physician, and discharged th... [ Read More ]
Amerigroup and high risk DX
Hi....we're (NJ providers) billing for spontaneous delivery before 39 weeks with O75.82 or O80 and Amerigroup is denying our claims as needing a high risk DX code. These patients have no complications... [ Read More ]
SROM prior to scheduled Cesarean
I would use the O34.2xx for the repeat cs and then the O75.82( I believe) for onset of labor and delivery before planned/scheduled c section.... [ Read More ]
Deliveries under 39 weeks
Starting January of this year, we started receiving denials from Amerigroup, stating that the delivery was not medically indicated when the child was born before 39 weeks. We need a diagnosis to indic... [ Read More ]
Help with Sepsis Proteus Mirabilis Due To UTI
[QUOTE="mitchellde, post: 382393, member: 30657"]I would agree with that, however this code first note at the A41 category says that one of the listed codes must go first. Code First postprocedural s... [ Read More ]
Delivery coding
Thanks so much i got the o34.21 but forgot the o75.82.... [ Read More ]
Delivery coding
For sequencing purposes, you'd need to code the condition or complication that created or caused the plan for a cesarean. If you check under O75.82, there is an instruction "[I]Code first[/I] to spec... [ Read More ]
Delivery coding
[b]OB[/b] Thanks, i used o34.21 and o75.82 and z37.0 is the o75.82 needed?... [ Read More ]
Delivery coding
Thanks, i used o34.21 and o75.82 and z37.0 is the o75.82 needed?... [ Read More ]
Help with Sepsis Proteus Mirabilis Due To UTI
[QUOTE="Fahad.Ogagang@MiraMedGS.com, post: 382693, member: 374751"]code first of sepsis Code first postprocedural sepsis (T81.4) sepsis during labor (O75.3) sepsis following abortion, ectopic or molar... [ Read More ]
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