ICD-9 Code 668.20
Central nervous system complications of anesthesia or other sedation in labor and delivery, unspecified as to episode of care or not applicable
Not Valid for Submission
668.20 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of central nervous system complications of anesthesia or other sedation in labor and delivery, unspecified as to episode of care or not applicable. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
| ICD-9: | 668.20 |
| Short Description: | Cns compl labor/del-unsp |
| Long Description: | Central nervous system complications of anesthesia or other sedation in labor and delivery, unspecified as to episode of care or not applicable |
Convert 668.20 to ICD-10
The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
- O74.3 - Cnsl complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery
Code Classification
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Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (630–679)
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Complications occurring mainly in the course of labor and delivery (660-669)
- 668 Complications of the administration of anesthetic or other sedation in labor and delivery
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Complications occurring mainly in the course of labor and delivery (660-669)
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
Anesthesia
If you are having surgery, your doctor will give you medicine called an anesthetic. Anesthetics reduce or prevent pain. There are three main types:
- Local - numbs one small area of the body. You stay awake and alert.
- Regional - blocks pain in an area of the body, such an arm or leg. A common type is epidural anesthesia, which is often used during childbirth.
- General - makes you unconscious. You do not feel any pain, and you do not remember the procedure afterwards.
You may also get a mild sedative to relax you. You stay awake but may not remember the procedure afterwards. Sedation can be used with or without anesthesia.
The type of anesthesia or sedation you get depends on many factors. They include the procedure you are having and your current health.
- Conscious sedation for surgical procedures
- Epidural block
- General anesthesia
- Spinal and epidural anesthesia
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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.