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Questionable Obstetric Admission - ICD-10-PCS Code Edits

The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding claims data. The following 8 ICD-10-PCS codes are intended for questionable obstetric admission. The following procedure codes describing a cesarean section or vaginal delivery are considered to be a questionable admission except when reported with a corresponding secondary diagnosis code describing the outcome of delivery.


ICD-10-PCS CodeDescriptionSectionBody SystemOperation
10D00Z0Extraction of Products of Conception, High, Open ApproachObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D00Z1Extraction of Products of Conception, Low, Open ApproachObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D00Z2Extraction of Products of Conception, Extraperitoneal, Open ApproachObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D07Z3Extraction of Products of Conception, Low Forceps, Via Natural or Artificial OpeningObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D07Z4Extraction of Products of Conception, Mid Forceps, Via Natural or Artificial OpeningObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D07Z5Extraction of Products of Conception, High Forceps, Via Natural or Artificial OpeningObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10D07Z7Extraction of Products of Conception, Internal Version, Via Natural or Artificial OpeningObstetricsPregnancyExtraction
10E0XZZDelivery of Products of Conception, External ApproachObstetricsPregnancyDelivery