Specific code 2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 770.14
Aspiration of clear amniotic fluid with respiratory symptoms
  • 2015
  • Billable Thru Sept 30/2015
  • Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015
  • Newborn/Neonate Only Dx (0 years)

  • ICD-9-CM 770.14 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 770.14 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 770.14 converts directly to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM P24.11 Neonatal aspiration of (clear) amniotic fluid and mucus with respiratory symptoms
Applies To
  • Aspiration of clear amniotic fluid with pneumonia
  • Aspiration of clear amniotic fluid with pneumonitis
Use Additional
  • Use additional code to identify any secondary pulmonary hypertension (416.8), if applicable
ICD-9-CM Coding Information
  • 770.14 is only applicable to newborns of age 0 years.
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 770.14:
  • Aspiration
    • amniotic fluid 770.13
      • with respiratory symptoms 770.14
    • clear amniotic fluid 770.13
      • with
        • pneumonia 770.14
        • pneumonitis 770.14
        • respiratory symptoms 770.14
  • Birth
    • strangulation or suffocation
      • due to aspiration of clear amniotic fluid 770.13
        • with respiratory symptoms 770.14
      • mechanical 767.8
  • Pneumonia (acute) (Alpenstich) (benign) (bilateral) (brain) (cerebral) (circumscribed) (congestive) (creeping) (delayed resolution) (double) (epidemic) (fever) (flash) (fulminant) (fungoid) (granulomatous) (hemorrhagic) (incipient) (infantile) (infectious) (infiltration) (insular) (intermittent) (latent) (lobe) (migratory) (newborn) (organized) (overwhelming) (primary) (progressive) (pseudolobar) (purulent) (resolved) (secondary) (senile) (septic) (suppurative) (terminal) (true) (unresolved) (vesicular) 486
  • Pneumonitis (acute) (primary) (see also Pneumonia) 486
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