ICD-10-PCS Section: 1 - Obstetrics

Obstetrics

The seven characters in the obstetrics section have the same meaning as in the medical and surgical section:

  • Character 1 = Section
  • Character 2 = Anatomical Region
  • Character 3 = Root Operation
  • Character 4 = Body Part
  • Character 5 = Approach
  • Character 6 = Device
  • Character 7 = Qualifier

Obstetrics procedure codes have a first character value of "1". The second character value for body system is Pregnancy. The root operations Change, Drainage, Extraction, Insertion, Inspection, Removal, Repair, Reposition, Resection and Transplantation are used in the obstetrics section, and have the same meaning as in the medical and surgical section. The obstetrics section also includes two additional root operations, Abortion and Delivery, defined below:

  • Abortion: Artificially terminating a pregnancy
  • Delivery: Assisting the passage of the products of conception from the genital canal

A cesarean section is not its own unique root operation, because the underlying objective is Extraction (i.e., pulling out all or a portion of a body part). The body part values in the obstetrics section are:

  • Products of conception
  • Products of conception, retained
  • Products of conception, ectopic

The obstetrics section includes procedures performed on the products of conception only; procedures on the pregnant female are coded in the medical and surgical section (e.g.,episiotomy). The term "products of conception" refers to all physical components of a 15 pregnancy, including the fetus, amnion, umbilical cord and placenta. There is no differentiation of the products of conception based on gestational age. Thus, the specification of the products of conception as a zygote, embryo or fetus, or the trimester of the pregnancy, is not part of the procedure code but can be found in the diagnosis code.

10 - Pregnancy

  • 102 - Change - Taking out or off a device from a body part and putting back an identical or similar device in or on the same body part without cutting or puncturing the skin or a mucous membrane
  • 109 - Drainage - Taking or letting out fluids and/or gases from a body part
  • 10A - Abortion - Artificially terminating a pregnancy
  • 10D - Extraction - Pulling or stripping out or off all or a portion of a body part by the use of force
  • 10E - Delivery - Assisting the passage of the products of conception from the genital canal
  • 10H - Insertion - Putting in a non-biological appliance that monitors, assists, performs or prevents a physiological function but does not physically take the place of a body part
  • 10J - Inspection - Visually and/or manually exploring a body part
  • 10P - Removal - Taking out or off a device from a body part
  • 10Q - Repair - Restoring, to the extent possible, a body part to its normal anatomic structure and function
  • 10S - Reposition - Moving to its normal location or other suitable location all or a portion of a body part
  • 10T - Resection - Cutting out or off, without replacement, all of a body part
  • 10Y - Transplantation - Putting in or on all or a portion of a living body part taken from another individual or animal to physically take the place and/or function of all or a portion of a similar body part