O77.8 — Labor and delivery complicated by other evidence of fetal stress
O77.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for labor and delivery complicated by other evidence of fetal stress. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes1 — never code together
These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Labor and delivery complicated by electrocardiographic evidence of fetal stress
- Labor and delivery complicated by ultrasonic evidence of fetal stress
Other codes that can never be billed with O77.8
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O77.8. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O77.8 alone.
Risk adjustment
O77.8 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.
How O77.8 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 O77.8.
- Delivery›complicated›by›fetal›hypoxia
- Delivery›complicated›by›fetal›stress›electrocardiographic evidence of
- Delivery›complicated›by›fetal›stress›specified NEC
- Delivery›complicated›by›fetal›stress›ultrasound evidence of
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O77. If O77.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O77.8
- Is O77.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O77.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O77.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).
- What cannot be coded together with O77.8?
- O77.8 carries an Excludes1 note, which means the conditions it lists can never be coded together with it on the same encounter.