ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O30-O48 › O32 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus › O32.9
Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified
Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.
Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:
- O32.9XX0 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, not applicable or unspecified
- O32.9XX1 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, fetus 1
- O32.9XX2 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, fetus 2
- O32.9XX3 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, fetus 3
- O32.9XX4 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, fetus 4
- O32.9XX5 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, fetus 5
- O32.9XX9 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified, other fetus
This code requires a seventh character. See the rule below.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2014 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified
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
- Childbirth
- Parturition
- Accouchement
- Malposition > fetus
- Presentation, fetal
- Delivery > obstructed
- Birth > complications in mother
- Delivery > complicated > by > tear
- Delivery > complicated > by > bleeding
- Delivery > complicated > by > perforation
- Delivery > complicated > by > metrorrhexis
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > labor
- Delivery > complicated > by > disruptio uteri
- Pregnancy > complicated by > presentation, fetal
- Delivery > complicated > by > injury > nonobstetric > caused by abuse
- Delivery > complicated > by > malposition, malpresentation > without obstruction
- Delivery > cesarean > mal lie
- Delivery > cesarean > malposition > fetus
- Delivery > cesarean > malpresentation NOS
- Delivery > cesarean > abnormal > presentation or position
- Delivery > complicated > by > malposition, malpresentation > without obstruction
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O32.0 | Maternal care for unstable lie | Not billable |
| O32.1 | Maternal care for breech presentation | 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 |