O60.20

O60.20: Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O60.20 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for term delivery with preterm labor, 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 O60.2. 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 O60.2 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

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O60.20

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 O60.20

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

Pregnancy›complicated by›preterm labor›with delivery›term

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead O60.20

7 child codes. Green means billable.