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P70.0

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Syndrome of infant of mother with gestational diabetes

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

A group of symptoms and metabolic problems in newborns whose mothers had gestational diabetes during pregnancy.

Coding Tips

  • •This code is used when the mother had gestational diabetes; do not use if mother had pre-existing diabetes
  • •Often associated with hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, and polycythemia in the newborn

Excludes 1 — Do NOT code together

  • newborn (with hypoglycemia) affected by maternal (pre-existing) diabetes mellitus (P70.1)
  • syndrome of infant of a diabetic mother (P70.1)

Code Hierarchy

└P70Transitory disorders of carbohydrate metabolism specific to newborn└P70.0Syndrome of infant of mother with gestational diabetes
└P70.0Syndrome of infant of mother with gestational diabetes

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