O73.0
O73.0 — Retained placenta without hemorrhage
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
O73.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for retained placenta without hemorrhage. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Adherent placenta, without hemorrhage
- Trapped placenta without hemorrhage
Risk adjustment
O73.0 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.
How O73.0 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O73.0.
- Trapped placenta›without hemorrhage
- Adherent›placenta›without hemorrhage
- Retention›placenta›without hemorrhage
- Retention›secundines›without hemorrhage
- Delivery›complicated›by›adherent placenta›without hemorrhage
- Delivery›complicated›by›retention of secundines›without hemorrhage
- Delivery›complicated›by›placenta, placental›adherent›without hemorrhage
- Delivery›complicated›by›placenta, placental›retained›without hemorrhage
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O73. If O73.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O73.0
- Is O73.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O73.0 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O73.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).