O24.9

O24.9: Unspecified diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O24.9 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for unspecified diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

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Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code (for):
from categories E08, E09 and E13 to further identify any manifestation
injectable non-insulin antidiabetic drugs (Z79.85)
long-term (current) use of insulin (Z79.4)

Other codes that can never be billed with O24.9

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

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 O24.9

3 child codes. Green means billable.

O24.91Unspecified diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
O24.92Unspecified diabetes mellitus in childbirth
O24.93Unspecified diabetes mellitus in the puerperium

Other codes under O24

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