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Wiki Encounter for Betamethasone

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What DX would you use for injection for Betamethsaone, patient is pregnant and given for fetal lung maturation.
 
Betamethasone is generally administered as prophylactic measure for fetal lung maturation. I would go with the code Z29.8 (Encounter for other specified prophylactic measures).
 
There must be an issue with the fetus or the pregnancy prompting this procedure. You will need to code either a complication of pregnancy or suspected fetal problem in pregnancy code for example,
 
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