O24.4

O24.4: Gestational diabetes mellitus

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O24.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for gestational diabetes mellitus. 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.

Diabetes mellitus arising in pregnancy
Gestational diabetes mellitus NOS

Other codes that can never be billed with O24.4

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

E08Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition
E09Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus
E10Type 1 diabetes mellitus
E11Type 2 diabetes mellitus
E13Other specified diabetes mellitus
Z86.32Personal history of gestational diabetes
O99.81Abnormal glucose complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
R73Elevated blood glucose level

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 O24.4

3 child codes. Green means billable.