AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1991 Fourth Quarter; New/Revised Codes

"Crack" Cocaine Addiction in Newborns

A new code 760.75, Noxious influences affecting fetus via placenta or breast milk, cocaine, has been added. Crack is a type of cocaine; all newborns with adverse conditions due to the mother's use of "crack" cocaine or any other type of cocaine should now have code 760.75 assigned as an additional code. This code can also be used as the principal diagnosis code for newborns transferred to another facility, where the use of a code from V30-V39, Newborn, is no longer appropriate as the principal diagnosis. ...

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