O60
O60 — Preterm labor
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O60 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for preterm labor. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with O60
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O60. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O60 alone.
- O47False labor
Risk adjustment
O60 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 O60
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Questions about O60
- Is O60 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O60 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O60 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).
- What cannot be coded together with O60?
- O60 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.