ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O69 Labor and delivery complicated by... › O69.3
Labor and delivery complicated by short cord
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:
- O69.3XX0 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, not applicable or unspecified
- O69.3XX1 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, fetus 1
- O69.3XX2 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, fetus 2
- O69.3XX3 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, fetus 3
- O69.3XX4 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, fetus 4
- O69.3XX5 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, fetus 5
- O69.3XX9 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord, 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 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord
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 O69 Labor and delivery complicated by umbilical cord complications
Seventh character required
- One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under category O69. 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 O69 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
- Delivery > complicated > by > cord > short
- Short, shortening, shortness > cord, complicating delivery
- Short, shortening, shortness > umbilical cord > complicating delivery
- Excess, excessive, excessively > short > umbilical cord in labor or delivery
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O69.0 | Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord | Not billable |
| O69.1 | Labor and delivery complicated by cord around neck, with compression | Not billable |
| O69.2 | Labor and delivery complicated by other cord entanglement, with compression | Not billable |
| O69.4 | Labor and delivery complicated by vasa previa | Not billable |
| O69.5 | Labor and delivery complicated by vascular lesion of cord | Not billable |
| O69.8 | Labor and delivery complicated by other cord complications | Not billable |
| O69.9 | Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unspecified | Not billable |