ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O94-O9A › O99.2 Endocrine, nutritional and... › O99.21
Obesity complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
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 6 more specific codes instead:
- O99.210 Obesity complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester
- O99.211 Obesity complicating pregnancy, first trimester
- O99.212 Obesity complicating pregnancy, second trimester
- O99.213 Obesity complicating pregnancy, third trimester
- O99.214 Obesity complicating childbirth
- O99.215 Obesity complicating the puerperium
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2012 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.
- FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Obesity complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
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 O99 Other maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Excludes2 - not included here
- when the reason for maternal care is that the condition is known or suspected to have affected the fetus (O35-O36)
Use additional code
- code to identify specific condition
Includes
- conditions which complicate the pregnant state, are aggravated by the pregnancy or are a main reason for obstetric care
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.
- Fatness
- Adiposis
- Cicatrix
- Adiposity
- Corpulence
- Sialorrhea
- Anteflexion
- Itch, itching
- Pinpoint > os
- Fat > excessive
- Stricture > vagina
- Anteversion > cervix
- Stricture > os uteri
- Pregnancy > high-risk
- Supervision > pregnancy
- Disease, diseased > renal
- Occlusion, occluded > cervix
- Pregnancy > normal > high-risk
- Stricture > uterus, uterine > os
- Supervision > high-risk pregnancy
- Pregnancy > examination > high-risk
- Excess, excessive, excessively > fat
- Occlusion, occluded > cervical canal
- Stenosis, stenotic > endocervical os
- Encounter > pregnancy > supervision of
- Pregnancy > prenatal care only > high-risk
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > cervix
- Pregnancy > complicated by > previous history of
- Contraction, contracture, contracted > internal os
- Prediabetes, prediabetic > complicating > pregnancy
- Necrosis, necrotic > kidney > tubular > complicating > pregnancy
- Obesity > complicating > pregnancy
- Pregnancy > complicated by > obesity
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O99.28 | Other endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium | Not billable |