kodex

Kodex

ICD-10-CM
Code

Z39.0

Encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery

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Hierarchy

  • Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
    • Z30-Z39 Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction (Z30-Z39)
      • Z39 Encounter for maternal postpartum care and examination
        • Z39.0 Encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery
        • Z39.1 Encounter for care and examination of lactating mother
        • Z39.2 Encounter for routine postpartum follow-up

Notes

Z00-Z99

  • Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
  • (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
  • (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.

Inclusion Terms

Z39.0

  • Care and observation in uncomplicated cases when the delivery occurs outside a healthcare facility

Excludes 1

Z39.0

  • care for postpartum complication- see Alphabetic index

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