O69.8
Labor and delivery complicated by other cord complications
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 5 never code together
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Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
7th character 7
0 not applicable or unspecified
1 fetus 1
2 fetus 2
3 fetus 3
4 fetus 4
5 fetus 5
9 other fetus
Instructional notes 7
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Notes
- CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.Z3A
Index entries leading here filed at null
No alphabetic index entry points at this code.
Alongside this code 7 same parent — O69
O69.0 Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord category O69.1 Labor and delivery comp by cord around neck, w compression category O69.2 Labor and delivery comp by oth cord entangle, w compression category O69.3 Labor and delivery complicated by short cord category O69.4 Labor and delivery complicated by vasa previa category O69.5 Labor and delivery complicated by vascular lesion of cord category O69.9 Labor and delivery complicated by cord complication, unsp category
Subordinate codes 3
Medications 2
43 Obstetric Labor Complications drugs 1315 Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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