O70.0
O70.0: First degree perineal laceration during delivery
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
O70.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for first degree perineal laceration during delivery. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check O70.0 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberInclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Perineal laceration, rupture or tear involving fourchette during delivery
- Perineal laceration, rupture or tear involving labia during delivery
- Perineal laceration, rupture or tear involving skin during delivery
- Perineal laceration, rupture or tear involving vagina during delivery
- Perineal laceration, rupture or tear involving vulva during delivery
- Slight perineal laceration, rupture or tear during delivery
Other codes that can never be billed with O70.0
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Laceration›fourchette
- Rupture, ruptured›vulva complicating delivery
- Tear, torn›vulva, complicating delivery
- Laceration›fourchette›complicating delivery
- Laceration›vulva›complicating delivery
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›fourchette
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›hymen
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›labia
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›vulva
- Laceration›perineum›female›during delivery›first degree
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›perineum, perineal›first degree
- Delivery›complicated›by›laceration›perineum, perineal›skin
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under O70
- O70.1Second degree perineal laceration during delivery
- O70.2Third degree perineal laceration during delivery
- O70.3Fourth degree perineal laceration during delivery
- O70.4Anal sphincter tear complicating delivery, not associated with third degree laceration
- O70.9Perineal laceration during delivery, unspecified