ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O64.9 Obstructed labor due to... › O64.9XX2
Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 2
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 2
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 |
|---|---|---|
| O64.9XX0 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, not applicable or unspecified | Valid |
| O64.9XX1 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 1 | Valid |
| O64.9XX3 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 3 | Valid |
| O64.9XX4 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 4 | Valid |
| O64.9XX5 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, fetus 5 | Valid |
| O64.9XX9 | Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified, other fetus | Valid |