O02.0 — Blighted ovum and nonhydatidiform mole
O02.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for blighted ovum and nonhydatidiform mole. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Carneous mole
- Fleshy mole
- Intrauterine mole NOS
- Molar pregnancy NEC
- Pathological ovum
Other codes that can never be billed with O02.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O02.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O02.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
O02.0 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Medicare coverage
O02.0 is named in 1 Medicare coverage policy — 1 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which of them applies to you depends on your Medicare contractor, and coverage genuinely differs by state.
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How O02.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O02.0.
- Blighted ovum
- Breus' mole
- Carneous mole
- Fleshy mole
- Molar pregnancy
- Blood›mole
- Dead›ovum, retained
- Mole›blood
- Mole›Breus'
- Mole›carneous
- Mole›fleshy
- Mole›intrauterine
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O02. If O02.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O02.0
- Is O02.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O02.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O02.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Pregnancy with abortive outcome (O00-O08).