O22 — Venous complications and hemorrhoids in pregnancy
O22 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for venous complications and hemorrhoids in pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Other codes that can never be billed with O22
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O22. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O22 alone.
Risk adjustment
O22 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead O22
8 child codes. Green means billable.
- O22.0Varicose veins of lower extremity in pregnancy
- O22.1Genital varices in pregnancy
- O22.2Superficial thrombophlebitis in pregnancy
- O22.3Deep phlebothrombosis in pregnancy
- O22.4Hemorrhoids in pregnancy
- O22.5Cerebral venous thrombosis in pregnancy
- O22.8Other venous complications in pregnancy
- O22.9Venous complication in pregnancy, unspecified
Questions about O22
- Is O22 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O22 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O22 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29).
- What cannot be coded together with O22?
- O22 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.