O34.3
O34.3 — Maternal care for cervical incompetence
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O34.3 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for maternal care for cervical incompetence. 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.
- Maternal care for cerclage with or without cervical incompetence
- Maternal care for Shirodkar suture with or without cervical incompetence
Other codes that can never be billed with O34.3
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O34.3. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O34.3 alone.
- N88.3Incompetence of cervix uteri
Risk adjustment
O34.3 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 O34.3
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O34. If O34.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O34.0Maternal care for congenital malformation of uterus
- O34.1Maternal care for benign tumor of corpus uteri
- O34.2Maternal care due to uterine scar from previous surgery
- O34.4Maternal care for other abnormalities of cervix
- O34.5Maternal care for other abnormalities of gravid uterus
- O34.6Maternal care for abnormality of vagina
- O34.7Maternal care for abnormality of vulva and perineum
- O34.8Maternal care for other abnormalities of pelvic organs
- O34.9Maternal care for abnormality of pelvic organ, unspecified
Questions about O34.3
- Is O34.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O34.3 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O34.3 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems (O30-O48).