O87.9 — Venous complication in the puerperium, unspecified
O87.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for venous complication in the puerperium, unspecified. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Puerperal phlebopathy NOS
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O87.9
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of O87.9, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Risk adjustment
O87.9 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 O87.9 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 O87.9.
- Phlebopathy,›puerperal
- Puerperal, puerperium›venous
Code history
O87.9 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O87. If O87.9 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O87.9
- Is O87.9 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O87.9 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O87.9 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications predominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92).