O29.5
O29.5 — Other complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia during pregnancy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O29.5 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia during pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
O29.5 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 O29.5
1 child code. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O29. If O29.5 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O29.0Pulmonary complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.1Cardiac complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.2Central nervous system complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.3Toxic reaction to local anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.4Spinal and epidural anesthesia induced headache during pregnancy
- O29.6Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.8Other complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.9Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy
Questions about O29.5
- Is O29.5 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O29.5 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O29.5 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29).