2021 ICD-10-CM Code O34.212
Maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean delivery
Valid for Submission
O34.212 is a billable diagnosis code used to specify a medical diagnosis of maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean delivery. The code O34.212 is valid during the fiscal year 2021 from October 01, 2020 through September 30, 2021 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
The code O34.212 is applicable to female patients aged 12 through 55 years inclusive. It is clinically and virtually impossible to use this code on a non-female patient outside the stated age range.
ICD-10: | O34.212 |
Short Description: | Maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean del |
Long Description: | Maternal care for vertical scar from previous cesarean delivery |
Code Classification
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code O34.212:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Maternal care for classical scar from previous cesarean delivery
Index to Diseases and Injuries
The Index to Diseases and Injuries is an alphabetical listing of medical terms, with each term mapped to one or more ICD-10 code(s). The following references for the code O34.212 are found in the index:
- - Cesarean delivery, previous, affecting management of pregnancy - O34.219
- - classical (vertical) scar - O34.212
- - Delivery (childbirth) (labor)
- - cesarean (for)
- - previous
- - cesarean delivery - O34.219
- - classical (vertical) scar - O34.212
- - cesarean delivery - O34.219
- - scar (s)
- - cesarean delivery - O34.219
- - classical (vertical) - O34.212
- - cesarean delivery - O34.219
- - previous
- - vaginal, following previous cesarean delivery - O34.219
- - classical (vertical) scar - O34.212
- - cesarean (for)
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Maternity diagnoses - The Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies in maternity cases by checking a patient's age and any diagnosis on the patient's record. The maternity code edits apply to patients age ange is 9–64 years inclusive (e.g., diabetes in pregnancy, antepartum pulmonary complication).
- Diagnoses for females only - The Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies between a patient’s sex and any diagnosis on the patient’s record, these edits apply to FEMALES only .
Diagnostic Related Groups - MS-DRG Mapping
The ICD-10 code O34.212 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V38.0 What are Diagnostic Related Groups?
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). applicable from 10/01/2020 through 09/30/2021.
Replacement Code
O34212 replaces the following previously assigned ICD-10 code(s):
- O34.21 - Maternal care for scar from previous cesarean delivery
Convert O34.212 to ICD-9 Code
The General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) crosswalk indicates an approximate mapping between the ICD-10 code O34.212 its ICD-9 equivalent. The approximate mapping means there is not an exact match between the ICD-10 code and the ICD-9 code and the mapped code is not a precise representation of the original code.
Code History
- FY 2021 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2020 through 9/30/2021
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018