O22.1
O22.1 — Genital varices in pregnancy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O22.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for genital varices 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.
- Perineal varices in pregnancy
- Vaginal varices in pregnancy
- Vulval varices in pregnancy
Other codes that can never be billed with O22.1
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O22.1. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O22.1 alone.
- I86.3Vulval varices
Risk adjustment
O22.1 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 O22.1
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O22. If O22.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O22.0Varicose veins of lower extremity 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 O22.1
- Is O22.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O22.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O22.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29).