O60.10 — Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester
O60.10 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
One of the following 7th characters is to be assigned to each code under subcategory O60.1. 7th character 0 is for single gestations and multiple gestations where the fetus is unspecified. 7th characters 1 through 9 are for cases of multiple gestations to identify the fetus for which the code applies. The appropriate code from category O30, Multiple gestation, must also be assigned when assigning a code from subcategory O60.1 that has a 7th character of 1 through 9.
- 0
- not applicable or unspecified
- 1
- fetus 1
- 2
- fetus 2
- 3
- fetus 3
- 4
- fetus 4
- 5
- fetus 5
- 9
- other fetus
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Preterm labor with delivery NOS
Risk adjustment
O60.10 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.
How O60.10 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O60.10.
- Delivery›preterm
- Premature›delivery
- Preterm›delivery
- Pregnancy›complicated by›preterm delivery
- Pregnancy›complicated by›preterm labor›with delivery
- Pregnancy›complicated by›preterm labor›with delivery›preterm
Code to one of these instead O60.10
7 child codes. Green means billable.
- O60.10X0Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, not applicable or unspecified
- O60.10X1Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, fetus 1
- O60.10X2Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, fetus 2
- O60.10X3Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, fetus 3
- O60.10X4Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, fetus 4
- O60.10X5Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, fetus 5
- O60.10X9Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester, other fetus
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O60.1. If O60.10 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O60.10
- Is O60.10 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O60.10 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O60.10 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).