O04.6 — Delayed or excessive hemorrhage following (induced) termination of pregnancy
O04.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for delayed or excessive hemorrhage following (induced) termination of pregnancy. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Afibrinogenemia following (induced) termination of pregnancy
- Defibrination syndrome following (induced) termination of pregnancy
- Hemolysis following (induced) termination of pregnancy
- Intravascular coagulation following (induced) termination of pregnancy
Risk adjustment
O04.6 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
O04.6 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 O04.6 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 O04.6.
- Abortion›induced›complicated by›afibrinogenemia
- Abortion›induced›complicated by›defibrination syndrome
- Abortion›induced›complicated by›hemolysis
- Abortion›induced›complicated by›hemorrhage(delayed) (excessive)
- Abortion›induced›complicated by›intravascular coagulation
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O04. If O04.6 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O04.6
- Is O04.6 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O04.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O04.6 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Pregnancy with abortive outcome (O00-O08).