AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2022 Issue 2; Ask the Editor

Post-Term Pregnancy

An obstetrical patient is admitted to labor and delivery for a planned cesarean section due to breech presentation. The provider documents the gestational weeks as “40 weeks and 2 days.” Is it appropriate to assign code O48.0, Post-term pregnancy, based on the documentation of gestational weeks alone without documentation of “post-term” or “post-dates”? ...

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