ICD-10 Code O10.413: Pre-existing secondary hypertension complicating pregnancy, third trimester
What is this code?
ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A).
đź“‹Clinical overview
This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes chronic or pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium. The most accurate code depends on whether the hypertension is uncomplicated or linked to heart or kidney disease, plus the trimester or delivery timing.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents pre-existing secondary hypertension complicating pregnancy, third trimester in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code can be used as a clinically usable diagnosis entry in standardized coding workflows.
What it does not mean
- A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
- A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.
🩺Clinical context
- Obstetric, maternal-fetal medicine, inpatient, and prenatal documentation where chronic hypertension affects pregnancy monitoring, delivery planning, or postpartum follow-up.
- Coding, utilization-review, and maternal-risk workflows where trimester, delivery timing, and organ involvement change the final diagnosis detail.
- Common related testing on this page includes Urine protein assessment, Serum creatinine, Platelet count, Liver function tests.
- Related procedures or service context already linked on this page include Obstetric ultrasound, Fetal nonstress testing, Biophysical profile.
- Maternal-hypertension follow-up often includes blood-pressure monitoring, medication review, urine and kidney assessment context, fetal surveillance, and preeclampsia-risk monitoring.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies pre-existing hypertension, trimester, childbirth or puerperium timing, and whether heart or kidney disease is also documented.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Cardiologist, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist.
🔍Key distinctions
- Maternal-hypertension ICD-10 coding is context-sensitive and usually depends on whether the hypertension predates pregnancy and whether the encounter is during pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium.
- Trimester detail and associated heart or kidney disease often matter for maternal-hypertension coding, while gestational hypertension and preeclampsia are coded separately from pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy.
- Trimester detail is part of the maternal-hypertension code choice, so documentation that clearly states first, second, or third trimester affects specificity.
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Where you may see this code
You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records.
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