O77.9

O77.9: Labor and delivery complicated by fetal stress, unspecified

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O77.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for labor and delivery complicated by fetal stress, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check O77.9 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

abnormality of fetal acid-base balance (O68)
abnormality in fetal heart rate or rhythm (O76)
fetal metabolic acidemia (O68)

Other codes that can never be billed with O77.9

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.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Stress›fetal›complicating pregnancy
Delivery›complicated›by›fetal›stress

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.