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O77

O77: Other fetal stress complicating labor and delivery

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O77 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other fetal stress complicating 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 O77

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

  • O68Labor and delivery complicated by abnormality of fetal acid-base balance
  • O76Abnormality in fetal heart rate and rhythm complicating labor and delivery

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 O77

4 child codes. Green means billable.

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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