The guidelines are meant to provide additional instruction on assigning and sequencing codes, as well as to assist in identifying certain procedures. The obstetrics guidelines indicate we should determine WHO received the procedure in order to assign the correct procedure.

Review the obstetrics guideline C1 and answer the following questions.

If a procedure was performed on a fetus, in utero, what section of ICD-10-PCS would that procedure code fall under?

would it be coded this way?

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