ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O64 Obstructed labor due to... › O64.9
Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, 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:
- O64.9XX0 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, not applicable or unspecified
- O64.9XX1 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 1
- O64.9XX2 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 2
- O64.9XX3 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 3
- O64.9XX4 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 4
- O64.9XX5 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 5
- O64.9XX9 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, 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 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, 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 O64 Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation of fetus
Seventh character required
- One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under category O64. 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 O64 that has a 7th character of 1 through 9.
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
- Dystocia > positional
- Delivery > complicated > by > obstructed labor > due to > malposition
- Delivery > complicated > by > obstructed labor > due to > malpresentation
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O64.0 | Obstructed labor due to incomplete rotation of fetal head | Not billable |
| O64.1 | Obstructed labor due to breech presentation | Not billable |
| O64.2 | Obstructed labor due to face presentation | Not billable |
| O64.3 | Obstructed labor due to brow presentation | Not billable |
| O64.4 | Obstructed labor due to shoulder presentation | Not billable |
| O64.5 | Obstructed labor due to compound presentation | Not billable |
| O64.8 | Obstructed labor due to other malposition and malpresentation | Not billable |