O29.6 — Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy
O29.6 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O29.6
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of O29.6, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Other codes that can never be billed with O29.6
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O29.6. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O29.6 alone.
Risk adjustment
O29.6 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 history
O29.6 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead O29.6
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- O29.60Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, unspecified trimester
- O29.61Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, first trimester
- O29.62Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, second trimester
- O29.63Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during pregnancy, third trimester
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O29. If O29.6 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
- O29.5Other complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.8Other complications of anesthesia during pregnancy
- O29.9Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy
Questions about O29.6
- Is O29.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O29.6 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O29.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29).