O24
O24 — Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O24 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with O24
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O24. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O24 alone.
- O99.81Abnormal glucose complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- R73Elevated blood glucose level
- R73.0Abnormal glucose
- Z86.32Personal history of gestational diabetes
- E09Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus
- E08Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition
- E10Type 1 diabetes mellitus
- E11Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Risk adjustment
O24 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.
Code to one of these instead O24
6 child codes. Green means billable.
- O24.0Pre-existing type 1 diabetes mellitus, in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O24.1Pre-existing type 2 diabetes mellitus, in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O24.3Unspecified pre-existing diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O24.4Gestational diabetes mellitus
- O24.8Other pre-existing diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
- O24.9Unspecified diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Questions about O24
- Is O24 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O24 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O24 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy (O20-O29).