O10.03

O10.03: Pre-existing essential hypertension complicating the puerperium

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O10.03 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for pre-existing essential hypertension complicating the puerperium. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check O10.03 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O10.03

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on O10: Pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

pre-existing hypertension with superimposed pre-eclampsia complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O11.-)

Risk adjustment

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

Medicare coverage

O10.03 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
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Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Hypertension, hypertensive›complicating›puerperium, pre-existing›pre-existing›essential

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.