? dx of "newborn delivery"?

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jan 25, 2009

This is the medical diagnosis, I assume? Then it is about the baby's birth and what the baby experiences as it makes its way through the birth canal, not the labor of the mother.

Borderbabyanna · Jan 25, 2009

I asked about this because this was a c-section baby, thinking that I would put something about that but my instructor said no that all babies in the nursery have this a medical dx and that there is a definition for it and that it is related to hospital admission. I have no clue what it could be I have searched everywhere.

Bortaz, MSN, RN · Jan 25, 2009

Try calling the L&D floor at your clinical site and ask one of the nurses there.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Jan 25, 2009

I was a medical coder. Believe me, coders pay extremely close attention to medical diagnoses that doctors put on these charts because they have to convert them into numerical codes that get reported to government agencies, particularly for statistical analysis. The information to covert Newborn Delivery" to codes is taken from other information in the chart and involves whether the child is from a single, twin or multiple gestation. This child would be a "single liveborn" and that is how the coders would code and bill for the hospital services provided to this child. The note attached to the code for this diagnosis is that the code is: intended for liveborn infants who are consuming healthcare [e.g. crib or bassinet occupancy]. A specification is also made for whether the baby was born in the hospital, before admission to the hospital, outside the hospital and not hospitalized, and if they were delivered by cesarean section. (V30.01 - Single liveborn infant, born in hospital by cesarean delivery)