ICD-9 Code 659.93
Unspecified indication for care or intervention related to labor and delivery, antepartum condition or complication
Not Valid for Submission
659.93 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of unspecified indication for care or intervention related to labor and delivery, antepartum condition or complication. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
| ICD-9: | 659.93 |
| Short Description: | Compl labor NOS-antepart |
| Long Description: | Unspecified indication for care or intervention related to labor and delivery, antepartum condition or complication |
Convert 659.93 to ICD-10
The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
- O75.9 - Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified
Code Classification
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Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (630–679)
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Normal delivery, and other indications for care in pregnancy, labor, and delivery (650-659)
- 659 Other indications for care or intervention related to labor and delivery and not elsewhere classified
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Normal delivery, and other indications for care in pregnancy, labor, and delivery (650-659)
Information for Medical Professionals
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-9 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Maternity diagnoses (age 12 through 55) Maternity diagnoses (age 12 through 55)
Maternity diagnoses: Age range is 12–55 years inclusive.
Information for Patients
Childbirth Problems
While childbirth usually goes well, complications can happen. They can cause a risk to the mother, baby, or both. Possible complications include
- Preterm (premature) labor, when labor starts before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy
- Problems with the umbilical cord
- Problems with the position of the baby, such as breech, in which the baby is going to come out feet first
- Birth injuries
For some of these problems, the baby may need to be delivered surgically by a Cesarean section.
- Assisted delivery with forceps
- Brachial plexus injury in newborns
- Breech birth
- Caput succedaneum
- Fractured clavicle in the newborn
- Meconium aspiration syndrome
- Placenta previa
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Sheehan syndrome
- Vacuum-assisted delivery
- When you pass your due date
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ICD-9 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.