O75.8
O75.8 — Other specified complications of labor and delivery
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O75.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other specified complications of labor and delivery. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Other codes that can never be billed with O75.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O75.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O75.8 alone.
Risk adjustment
O75.8 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 O75.8
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O75. If O75.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O75.0Maternal distress during labor and delivery
- O75.1Shock during or following labor and delivery
- O75.2Pyrexia during labor, not elsewhere classified
- O75.3Other infection during labor
- O75.4Other complications of obstetric surgery and procedures
- O75.5Delayed delivery after artificial rupture of membranes
- O75.9Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified
Questions about O75.8
- Is O75.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O75.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O75.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).