O99.34
O99.34 — Other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O99.34 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
Risk adjustment
O99.34 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 to one of these instead O99.34
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- O99.340Other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester
- O99.341Other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, first trimester
- O99.342Other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, second trimester
- O99.343Other mental disorders complicating pregnancy, third trimester
- O99.344Other mental disorders complicating childbirth
- O99.345Other mental disorders complicating the puerperium
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O99.3. If O99.34 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O99.31Alcohol use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
- O99.32Drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
- O99.33Tobacco use disorder complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
- O99.35Diseases of the nervous system complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
Questions about O99.34
- Is O99.34 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O99.34 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O99.34 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (O94-O9A).