O9A.23

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes complicating the puerperium

Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30

Exclusions 6 never code together

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Excludes2

physical, sexual and psychological abuse complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O9A.3-, O9A.4-, O9A.5-)O9A.3-O9A.4-O9A.5-

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Excludes1

supervision of normal pregnancy (Z34.-)Z34.-

Excludes2

mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium (F53.-)F53.-
obstetrical tetanus (A34)A34
postpartum necrosis of pituitary gland (E23.0)E23.0
puerperal osteomalacia (M83.0)M83.0

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.

Instructional notes 9

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Inclusion terms

Conditions in S00-T88, except T74 and T76S00-T88 T74 T76

Use additional code

code(s) to identify the injury or poisoning

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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 1

Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications)
- trauma, non-obstetric O9A.23

Alongside this code 2 same parent — O9A.2

O9A.21 Inj/poisn/oth conseq of external causes comp pregnancy category O9A.22 Inj/poisn/oth conseq of external causes comp childbirth

Medications 2

2 Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury drugs 1 Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury, Chronic 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.

Additional references

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Risk adjustment

Maps to no condition category in any loaded model.

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This code

Billable: yes
Code set: FY2026
Parent: O9A.2
Block: O94-O9A
Siblings: 2

Present FY2024–FY2027.