ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O70 Perineal laceration during delivery › O70.4
Anal sphincter tear complicating delivery, not associated with third degree laceration
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 Anal sphincter tear complicating delivery, not associated with third degree laceration
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
- Rupture, ruptured > anus
- Birth > complications in mother
- Wound, open > anus > laceration
- Delivery > complicated > by > tear
- 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
- Delivery > complicated > by > injury > nonobstetric > caused by abuse
- Delivery > complicated > by > malposition, malpresentation > without obstruction
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > anus
- Delivery > complicated > by > laceration > anus > without third degree laceration
- Tear, torn > anus, anal > complicating delivery > without third degree perineal laceration
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O70.0 | First degree perineal laceration during delivery | Valid |
| O70.1 | Second degree perineal laceration during delivery | Valid |
| O70.2 | Third degree perineal laceration during delivery | Not billable |
| O70.3 | Fourth degree perineal laceration during delivery | Valid |
| O70.9 | Perineal laceration during delivery, unspecified | Valid |