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O74

O74: Complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O74 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

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Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

  • code, if applicable, to identify specific complication

Includes

Conditions this code covers.

  • maternal complications arising from the administration of a general, regional or local anesthetic, analgesic or other sedation during labor and delivery

Other codes that can never be billed with O74

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

  • G93.1Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified
  • J69.0Pneumonitis due to inhalation of food and vomit
  • J95.4Chemical pneumonitis due to anesthesia
  • T41Poisoning by, adverse effect of and underdosing of anesthetics and therapeutic gases
  • T88.2Shock due to anesthesia
  • T88.2XXAShock due to anesthesia, initial encounter
  • T88.2XXDShock due to anesthesia, subsequent encounter
  • T88.2XXSShock due to anesthesia, sequela

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 O74

10 child codes. Green means billable.

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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