998.9 is a billable ICD-9-CM medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
Diagnosis Definition(s)
pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure; may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
Excludes
complication NOS of obstetrical surgery or procedure (669.4)
Also applicable to/known as
Postoperative complication NOS
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index Entries That Refer To 998.9
foreign body inadvertently left in wound (sponge) (suture) (swab) 998.4
from nonabsorbable surgical material (Dacron) (mesh) (permanent suture) (reinforcing) (Teflon) - see Complications due to (presence of) any device, implant, or graft classified to 996.0-996.5 NEC