Home > 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes > Complications Of Pregnancy, Childbirth, And The Puerperium 630-679 > Normal Delivery, And Other Indications For Care In Pregnancy, Labor, And Delivery 650-659 > Other indications for care or intervention related to labor and delivery not elsewhere classified 659-
Non-specific code 2014 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 659.3
Generalized infection during labor
  • 2014
  • Non-Billable Code

  • There are 3 ICD-9-CM codes below 659.3 that define this diagnosis in greater detail. Do not use this code on a reimbursement claim.
  • You are viewing the 2014 version of ICD-9-CM 659.3.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 659.3: 2015.
Applies To
  • Septicemia during labor
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 659.3:
  • Intoxication
    • septic
      • with
        • abortion - see Abortion, by type, with sepsis
        • ectopic pregnancy (see also categories 633.0-633.9) 639.0
        • molar pregnancy (see also categories 630-632) 639.0
      • during labor 659.3
      • following
      • generalized - see Septicemia
      • puerperal, postpartum, childbirth 670.2
  • Sepsis (generalized) 995.91
    • complicating labor 659.3
  • Septicemia, septicemic (generalized) (suppurative) 038.9
    • complicating labor 659.3
 659.23 ICD9Data.com 659.30 
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