O23.0

O23.0: Infections of kidney in pregnancy

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O23.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for infections of kidney in pregnancy. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

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

Pyelonephritis in pregnancy

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O23.0

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

Written on O23: Infections of genitourinary tract in pregnancy

gonococcal infections complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.2)
infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission NOS complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.3)
syphilis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.1)
tuberculosis of genitourinary system complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.0)
venereal disease NOS complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.3)

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead O23.0

4 child codes. Green means billable.