O32.0: Maternal care for unstable lie
O32.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for maternal care for unstable lie. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under category O32. 7th character 0 is for single gestations and multiple gestations where the fetus is unspecified. 7th characters 1 through 9 are for cases of multiple gestations to identify the fetus for which the code applies. The appropriate code from category O30, Multiple gestation, must also be assigned when assigning a code from category O32 that has a 7th character of 1 through 9.
- 0
- not applicable or unspecified
- 1
- fetus 1
- 2
- fetus 2
- 3
- fetus 3
- 4
- fetus 4
- 5
- fetus 5
- 9
- other fetus
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Unstable›lie(mother)
- Pregnancy›complicated by›unstable lie
- Delivery›complicated›by›malposition, malpresentation›without obstruction›unstable lie
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead O32.0
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- O32.0XX0Maternal care for unstable lie, not applicable or unspecified
- O32.0XX1Maternal care for unstable lie, fetus 1
- O32.0XX2Maternal care for unstable lie, fetus 2
- O32.0XX3Maternal care for unstable lie, fetus 3
- O32.0XX4Maternal care for unstable lie, fetus 4
- O32.0XX5Maternal care for unstable lie, fetus 5
- O32.0XX9Maternal care for unstable lie, other fetus
Other codes under O32
- O32.1Maternal care for breech presentation
- O32.2Maternal care for transverse and oblique lie
- O32.3Maternal care for face, brow and chin presentation
- O32.4Maternal care for high head at term
- O32.6Maternal care for compound presentation
- O32.8Maternal care for other malpresentation of fetus
- O32.9Maternal care for malpresentation of fetus, unspecified