Asked by Desmond Thomas on Jun 09, 2024

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Jenni is a healthy 24-year-old patient who is in the office today for routine obstetric care. The ICD-9 code for routine obstetric care will be found in which of the following series of codes?

A) 760-779
B) 800-999
C) 580-629
D) V01-V83
E) 320-389

Obstetric Care

Medical care and services provided to pregnant individuals, including monitoring, childbirth, and postpartum support.

ICD-9

An abbreviation for the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, a system used for coding and classifying diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, and external causes of injury or diseases.

  • Determine and implement the suitable sequence of codes for different medical diagnoses and surgical procedures.
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Zybrea KnightJun 12, 2024
Final Answer :
D
Explanation :
The ICD-9 code for routine obstetric care is found in the V01-V83 series, which is designated for supplementary classification of factors influencing health status and contact with health services, including routine obstetric care.