O34.212
O34.212 — Maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean delivery
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
O34.212 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean delivery. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Maternal care for classical scar from previous cesarean delivery
Risk adjustment
O34.212 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.
How O34.212 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O34.212.
- Cesarean delivery, previous, affecting management of pregnancy›classical scar(vertical)
- Delivery›vaginal, following previous cesarean delivery›classical scar(vertical)
- Delivery›cesarean›previous›cesarean delivery›classical scar(vertical)
- Delivery›cesarean›scar›cesarean delivery›classical(vertical)
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O34.21. If O34.212 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O34.212
- Is O34.212 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O34.212 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O34.212 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems (O30-O48).