O66.5
O66.5: Attempted application of vacuum extractor and forceps
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CMPOA exempt
O66.5 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for attempted application of vacuum extractor and forceps. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check O66.5 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Attempted application of vacuum or forceps, with subsequent delivery by forceps or cesarean delivery
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Delivery›forceps, low following failed vacuum extraction
- Failure, failed›forceps NOS(with subsequent cesarean delivery)
- Failure, failed›vacuum extraction NOS(with subsequent cesarean delivery)
- Failure, failed›ventouse NOS(with subsequent cesarean delivery)
- Delivery›cesarean›failed›forceps
- Delivery›cesarean›failed›vacuum extraction
- Delivery›cesarean›failed›ventouse
- Delivery›complicated›by›attempted vacuum extraction and forceps
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under O66
- O66.0Obstructed labor due to shoulder dystocia
- O66.1Obstructed labor due to locked twins
- O66.2Obstructed labor due to unusually large fetus
- O66.3Obstructed labor due to other abnormalities of fetus
- O66.4Failed trial of labor
- O66.6Obstructed labor due to other multiple fetuses
- O66.8Other specified obstructed labor
- O66.9Obstructed labor, unspecified