O22.0

O22.0: Varicose veins of lower extremity in pregnancy

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O22.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for varicose veins of lower extremity in pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Varicose veins NOS in pregnancy

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O22.0

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O22: Venous complications and hemorrhoids in pregnancy

venous complications of:
abortion NOS (O03.9)
ectopic or molar pregnancy (O08.7)
failed attempted abortion (O07.35)
induced abortion (O04.85)
spontaneous abortion (O03.89)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O22.0

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on O22: Venous complications and hemorrhoids in pregnancy

obstetric pulmonary embolism (O88.-)
venous complications and hemorrhoids of childbirth and the puerperium (O87.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead O22.0

4 child codes. Green means billable.