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.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O75.8

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on O75: Other complications of labor and delivery, not elsewhere classified

puerperal (postpartum) infection (O86.-)
puerperal (postpartum) sepsis (O85)

Other codes that can never be billed with O75.8

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

O72.1Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage
O62.2Other uterine inertia

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 O75.8

3 child codes. Green means billable.

O75.81Maternal exhaustion complicating labor and delivery
O75.82Onset (spontaneous) of labor after 37 completed weeks of gestation but before 39 completed weeks gestation, with delivery by (planned) cesarean section
O75.89Other specified complications of labor and delivery

Other codes under O75

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