O60.10

O60.10: Preterm labor with preterm delivery, unspecified trimester

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

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

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O60.10

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O60: Preterm labor

false labor (O47.0-)
threatened labor NOS (O47.0-)

Other codes that can never be billed with O60.10

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

O47False labor

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

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