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O44.1

O44.1: Complete placenta previa with hemorrhage

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O44.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for complete placenta previa with hemorrhage. 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.

  • labor and delivery complicated by hemorrhage from vasa previa (O69.4)

Other codes that can never be billed with O44.1

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

  • O46Antepartum hemorrhage, not elsewhere classified
  • O67Labor and delivery complicated by intrapartum hemorrhage, not elsewhere classified

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 O44.1

4 child codes. Green means billable.

Other codes under O44

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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