ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O30-O48 › O32 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus › O32.1

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:

• O32.1XX0 Maternal care for breech presentation, not applicable or unspecified
• O32.1XX1 Maternal care for breech presentation, fetus 1
• O32.1XX2 Maternal care for breech presentation, fetus 2
• O32.1XX3 Maternal care for breech presentation, fetus 3
• O32.1XX4 Maternal care for breech presentation, fetus 4
• O32.1XX5 Maternal care for breech presentation, fetus 5
• O32.1XX9 Maternal care for breech presentation, other fetus

This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.

What has happened to this code

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

Inherited from O32 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus

Seventh character required

• One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under category O32. 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 O32 that has a 7th character of 1 through 9.

Excludes1 - never coded here

• malpresentation of fetus with obstructed labor (O64.-)

Includes

• the listed conditions as a reason for observation, hospitalization or other obstetric care of the mother, or for cesarean delivery before onset of labor

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.

• Labor
• Cicatrix
• Childbirth
• Sialorrhea
• Anteflexion
• Parturition
• Accouchement
• Itch, itching
• Pinpoint > os
• Stricture > vagina
• Malposition > fetus
• Presentation, fetal
• Anteversion > cervix
• Stricture > os uteri
• Delivery > obstructed
• Pregnancy > high-risk
• Supervision > pregnancy
• Disease, diseased > renal
• Occlusion, occluded > cervix
• Pregnancy > normal > high-risk
• Birth > complications in mother
• Stricture > uterus, uterine > os
• Supervision > high-risk pregnancy
• Delivery > complicated > by > tear
• Pregnancy > examination > high-risk
• Occlusion, occluded > cervical canal
• Stenosis, stenotic > endocervical os
• Delivery > complicated > by > bleeding
• Encounter > pregnancy > supervision of
• Delivery > complicated > by > perforation
• Delivery > complicated > by > metrorrhexis
• Pregnancy > prenatal care only > high-risk
• Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > labor
• Contraction, contracture, contracted > cervix
• Delivery > complicated > by > disruptio uteri
• Pregnancy > complicated by > presentation, fetal
• Pregnancy > complicated by > previous history of
• Contraction, contracture, contracted > internal os
• Prediabetes, prediabetic > complicating > pregnancy
• Necrosis, necrotic > kidney > tubular > complicating > pregnancy

Showing 40 of 46 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
O32.0	Maternal care for unstable lie	Not billable
O32.2	Maternal care for transverse and oblique lie	Not billable
O32.3	Maternal care for face, brow and chin presentation	Not billable
O32.4	Maternal care for high head at term	Not billable
O32.6	Maternal care for compound presentation	Not billable
O32.8	Maternal care for other malpresentation of fetus	Not billable
O32.9	Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified	Not billable