O71.8
O71.8 — Other specified obstetric trauma
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O71.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified obstetric trauma. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with O71.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O71.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O71.8 alone.
Risk adjustment
O71.8 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.
Code to one of these instead O71.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O71. If O71.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O71.0Rupture of uterus (spontaneous) before onset of labor
- O71.1Rupture of uterus during labor
- O71.2Postpartum inversion of uterus
- O71.3Obstetric laceration of cervix
- O71.4Obstetric high vaginal laceration alone
- O71.5Other obstetric injury to pelvic organs
- O71.6Obstetric damage to pelvic joints and ligaments
- O71.7Obstetric hematoma of pelvis
- O71.9Obstetric trauma, unspecified
Questions about O71.8
- Is O71.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O71.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O71.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).