O9A.21
O9A.21 — Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O9A.21 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
O9A.21 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 O9A.21
4 child codes. Green means billable.
- O9A.211Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, first trimester
- O9A.212Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, second trimester
- O9A.213Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, third trimester
- O9A.219Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O9A.2. If O9A.21 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O9A.21
- Is O9A.21 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O9A.21 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O9A.21 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (O94-O9A).