AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2016 Issue 4; ICD-10-CM NEW/REVISED CODES

Hypertension in Pregnancy

New codes have been created in categories O11, Pre-existing hypertension with pre-eclampsia; O12, Gestational [pregnancy-induced] edema and proteinuria without hypertension; O13, Gestational [pregnancy-induced] hypertension without significant proteinuria; O14, Pre-eclampsia; and O16, Unspecified maternal hypertension. Additionally, codes in subcategory O15.0, Eclampsia complicating pregnancy, were revised. The new codes as well as the revised codes update the edema, proteinuria and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium section (O10 through O16), and standardize reporting of these codes by incorporating “complicating childbirth” and “complicating the puerperium.”   ...

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