Know Your Abortion Terminology

With so many different types of abortion, knowing the medical terminology is essential to coding related services based on your ob-gyn's documentation. By being familiar with these common types of abortions, you take the first step to assigning the correct ICD-9 and CPT® codes:

Complete -- The complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a fetus or embryo; complete expulsion from the uterus of any other product of conception (for example, blighted ovum).

Elective -- Without medical justification but performed in a legal way.

Incomplete -- Part of the products of conception have been passed, but part (usually the placenta) remains in the uterus.

Induced -- Expulsion [...]

- Published on 2011-09-05