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O9A.21

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 4 more specific codes instead:

  • O9A.211 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, first trimester
  • O9A.212 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, second trimester
  • O9A.213 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, third trimester
  • O9A.219 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating pregnancy

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.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
O9A.22 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating childbirth Valid
O9A.23 Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating the puerperium Valid