O26.87
O26.87: Cervical shortening
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O26.87 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for cervical shortening. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1: never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
- encounter for suspected cervical shortening ruled out (Z03.75)
Other codes that can never be billed with O26.87
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- Z03.7Encounter for suspected maternal and fetal conditions ruled out
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 O26.87
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Other codes under O26.8
- O26.81Pregnancy related exhaustion and fatigue
- O26.82Pregnancy related peripheral neuritis
- O26.83Pregnancy related renal disease
- O26.84Uterine size-date discrepancy complicating pregnancy
- O26.85Spotting complicating pregnancy
- O26.86Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP)
- O26.89Other specified pregnancy related conditions