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O70.22
Third degree perineal laceration during delivery, IIIb
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 2017 to now.
- FY2017 Added to the code set Third degree perineal laceration during delivery, IIIb
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 O70 Perineal laceration during delivery
Excludes1 - never coded here
- obstetric high vaginal laceration alone (O71.4)
Includes
- episiotomy extended by laceration
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
- Injury > vulva > during delivery
- Delivery > complicated > by > tear
- Perforation, perforated > perineum
- Wound, open > perineum > laceration
- Delivery > complicated > by > bleeding
- Delivery > complicated > by > perforation
- Laceration > anus > complicating delivery
- Delivery > complicated > by > metrorrhexis
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > labor
- Delivery > complicated > by > disruptio uteri
- Pregnancy > complicated by > presentation, fetal
- Rupture, ruptured > perineum > complicating delivery
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > sphincter ani
- Laceration > perineum > female > during delivery > third degree
- Laceration > vagina > during delivery > with perineal laceration
- Delivery > complicated > by > injury > nonobstetric > caused by abuse
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > rectovaginal > with perineum
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > anus > with third degree laceration
- Delivery > complicated > by > malposition, malpresentation > without obstruction
- Tear, torn > anus, anal > complicating delivery > with third degree perineal laceration
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > perineum, perineal > third degree > IIIb
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > perineum, perineal > third degree > with > more than 50% external anal sphincter
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O70.20 | Third degree perineal laceration during delivery, unspecified | Valid |
| O70.21 | Third degree perineal laceration during delivery, IIIa | Valid |
| O70.23 | Third degree perineal laceration during delivery, IIIc | Valid |