O44.4 — Low lying placenta NOS or without hemorrhage
O44.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for low lying placenta nos or without hemorrhage. 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.
- Low implantation of placenta NOS or without hemorrhage
Other codes that can never be billed with O44.4
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O44.4. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O44.4 alone.
Risk adjustment
O44.4 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 history
O44.4 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead O44.4
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O44. If O44.4 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O44.4
- Is O44.4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O44.4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O44.4 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).