Is O07.38 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. O07.38 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does O07.38 sit in the tabular list?

Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Pregnancy with abortive outcome (O00-O08).

O07.38

O07.38 — Urinary tract infection following failed attempted termination of pregnancy

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O07.38 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for urinary tract infection following failed attempted 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.

Cystitis following failed attempted termination of pregnancy

Other codes that can never be billed with O07.38

These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O07.38. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O07.38 alone.

O07.0Genital tract and pelvic infection following failed attempted termination of pregnancy

Risk adjustment

O07.38 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.

How O07.38 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 O07.38.

Abortion›attempted›complicated by›cystitis
Abortion›attempted›complicated by›urinary tract infection
Abortion›attempted›complicated by›infection›urinary tract tract

Related codes at this level

Codes that share O07.3. If O07.38 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about O07.38

Is O07.38 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. O07.38 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does O07.38 sit in the tabular list?: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Pregnancy with abortive outcome (O00-O08).