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O43.0

O43.0: Placental transfusion syndromes

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O43.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for placental transfusion syndromes. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O43.0

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on O43: Placental disorders

  • maternal care for poor fetal growth due to placental insufficiency (O36.5-)
  • placenta previa (O44.-)
  • placental polyp (O90.89)
  • placentitis (O41.14-)
  • premature separation of placenta [abruptio placentae] (O45.-)

Other codes that can never be billed with O43.0

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

  • O36Maternal care for other fetal problems

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 O43.0

2 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under O43

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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