O32.4

O32.4: Maternal care for high head at term

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O32.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for maternal care for high head at term. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.

This code requires a 7th character

One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under category O32. 7th character 0 is for single gestations and multiple gestations where the fetus is unspecified. 7th characters 1 through 9 are for cases of multiple gestations to identify the fetus for which the code applies. The appropriate code from category O30, Multiple gestation, must also be assigned when assigning a code from category O32 that has a 7th character of 1 through 9.

0: not applicable or unspecified
1: fetus 1
2: fetus 2
3: fetus 3
4: fetus 4
5: fetus 5
9: other fetus

Inclusion terms

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

Maternal care for failure of head to enter pelvic brim

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O32.4

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O32: Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus

malpresentation of fetus with obstructed labor (O64.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Failure, failed›descent of head(at term) of pregnancy (mother)
Failure, failed›engagement of head(term of pregnancy) (mother)
High›head at term
Nonengagement›head NEC
Delivery›cesarean›high head at term
Pregnancy›complicated by›high›head at term
Delivery›complicated›by›malposition, malpresentation›without obstruction›high head