O99.84 — Bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
O99.84 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Gastric banding status complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- Gastric bypass status for obesity complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- Obesity surgery status complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Other codes that can never be billed with O99.84
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O99.84. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O99.84 alone.
- Z98.84Bariatric surgery status
Risk adjustment
O99.84 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 O99.84
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- O99.840Bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester
- O99.841Bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, first trimester
- O99.842Bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, second trimester
- O99.843Bariatric surgery status complicating pregnancy, third trimester
- O99.844Bariatric surgery status complicating childbirth
- O99.845Bariatric surgery status complicating the puerperium
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O99.8. If O99.84 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O99.81Abnormal glucose complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O99.82Streptococcus B carrier state complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O99.83Other infection carrier state complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O99.89Other specified diseases and conditions complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Questions about O99.84
- Is O99.84 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O99.84 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O99.84 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (O94-O9A).