O70.2

O70.2: Third degree perineal laceration during delivery

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O70.2 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for third degree perineal laceration during delivery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

anal sphincter tear during delivery without third degree perineal laceration (O70.4)
perineal laceration involving anal or rectal mucosa (O70.3)

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Perineal laceration, rupture or tear during delivery as in O70.1, also involving anal sphincter
Perineal laceration, rupture or tear during delivery as in O70.1, also involving rectovaginal septum
Perineal laceration, rupture or tear during delivery as in O70.1, also involving sphincter NOS

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O70.2

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O70: Perineal laceration during delivery

obstetric high vaginal laceration alone (O71.4)

Other codes that can never be billed with O70.2

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

N89.8Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vagina
N90Other noninflammatory disorders of vulva and perineum
O71.4Obstetric high vaginal laceration alone
O70.1Second degree perineal laceration during delivery
O70.4Anal sphincter tear complicating delivery, not associated with third degree laceration
S31.4Open wound of vagina and vulva

Risk adjustment

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

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead O70.2

4 child codes. Green means billable.