ICD-10 Code O9A.513: Psychological abuse 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 psychological abuse complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium. The most accurate code depends on maternal timing while separate mental-health, safeguarding, or abuse-context detail may be documented elsewhere in the chart.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents psychological abuse 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.
đź©şClinical context
- Obstetric, behavioral-health, inpatient, and safeguarding documentation where psychological abuse materially affects pregnancy management, delivery planning, or postpartum follow-up.
- Coding and utilization-review workflows where the record clearly ties psychological-abuse context to pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium.
- Maternal psychological-abuse follow-up often includes trauma-informed assessment, mental-health review, safeguarding planning, and coordination across obstetric, behavioral-health, social-work, and inpatient teams.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester detail, childbirth versus puerperium timing, or separately documented psychiatric findings.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychologist.
🔍Key distinctions
- This ICD-10 family captures the obstetric complication context of psychological abuse, while separate psychiatric codes may carry more specific mental-health detail documented elsewhere in the chart.
- Pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium, and trimester timing matter, so clearer documentation about maternal timing can change code specificity.
- This title reflects maternal psychological abuse complicating pregnancy-related care, which is coded separately from physical or sexual abuse complication families and may coexist with separately coded psychiatric findings elsewhere in the chart.
- This title reflects psychological abuse complicating pregnancy, which is coded separately from the childbirth or puerperium versions of the same maternal-abuse complication family.
- Trimester detail is part of the maternal-abuse complication code choice, so documentation that clearly states first, second, third, or unspecified 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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