O03.81

O03.81: Shock following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O03.81 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for shock following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check O03.81 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

shock due to infection following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion (O03.87)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Circulatory collapse following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion
Shock (postprocedural) following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Medicare coverage

O03.81 is named in 2 Medicare coverage policies: 2 listing it as supporting medical necessity. Which one applies depends on your Medicare contractor.

A57189Billing and Coding: Serum Magnesium
A57326Billing and Coding: Electrocardiograms

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Abortion›complicated›circulatory collapse
Abortion›complicated›shock

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.