O88.0 — Obstetric air embolism
O88.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for obstetric air embolism. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O88.0
These are not written on O88.0, but they bind it: a note on a category applies to every code beneath it. Billing O88.0 with anything listed here is a denial.
Other codes that can never be billed with O88.0
These codes carry an Excludes1 note pointing at O88.0. The conflict binds both ways, but ICD-10-CM only writes it down on one side — so you would not find this by reading O88.0 alone.
Risk adjustment
O88.0 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.
Code history
O88.0 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Code to one of these instead O88.0
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O88. If O88.0 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O88.0
- Is O88.0 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O88.0 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O88.0 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications predominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92).
- What cannot be coded together with O88.0?
- O88.0 carries Excludes1 notes, which means the conditions they list can never be coded together with it on the same encounter. Some are written on the categories above O88.0 (O88) and apply to it just the same.