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Z34.8

Encounter for supervision of other normal 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:

  • Z34.80 Encounter for supervision of other normal pregnancy, unspecified trimester
  • Z34.81 Encounter for supervision of other normal pregnancy, first trimester
  • Z34.82 Encounter for supervision of other normal pregnancy, second trimester
  • Z34.83 Encounter for supervision of other normal pregnancy, third 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 Encounter for supervision of other normal pregnancy

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 Z34 Encounter for supervision of normal pregnancy

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • any complication of pregnancy (O00-O9A)
  • encounter for pregnancy test (Z32.0-)
  • encounter for supervision of high risk pregnancy (O09.-)

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
Z34.0 Encounter for supervision of normal first pregnancy Not billable
Z34.9 Encounter for supervision of normal pregnancy, unspecified Not billable