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Help with Diagnosis Code
Patient 10 days post c-section with drainage from her incision. There is some minimal serosanguineous drainage. Would the correct code be O99.89 with Z48.816?
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re: Help with Diagnosis Code
If you look further into the O codes you will see there is a more specific code thanO99.89 - Other specified diseases and conditions complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. There is a code specifically for the disruption of a cesarean delivery wound, see O90.0.
Yes Z48.89 is used for surgical aftercare since there is no specific code for C-sections aftercare, Z48.89 could be used.
Consider the following codes.
O90.0 Disruption of cesarean delivery wound
Z48.89 Encounter for other specified surgical aftercare