O69.9: Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified
O69.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified. 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 O69. 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 O69 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
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities›umbilical cord complicating delivery
- Complication›umbilical cord NEC›complicating delivery
- Pregnancy›complicated by›abnormal, abnormality›cord(umbilical)
- Delivery›complicated›by›cord›complication
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead O69.9
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- O69.9XX0Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, not applicable or unspecified
- O69.9XX1Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, fetus 1
- O69.9XX2Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, fetus 2
- O69.9XX3Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, fetus 3
- O69.9XX4Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, fetus 4
- O69.9XX5Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, fetus 5
- O69.9XX9Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified, other fetus
Other codes under O69
- O69.0Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord
- O69.1Labor and delivery complicated by cord around neck, with compression
- O69.2Labor and delivery complicated by other cord entanglement, with compression
- O69.3Labor and delivery complicated by short cord
- O69.4Labor and delivery complicated by vasa previa
- O69.5Labor and delivery complicated by vascular lesion of cord
- O69.8Labor and delivery complicated by other cord complications