O88.1

O88.1: Amniotic fluid embolism

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O88.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for amniotic fluid embolism. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Anaphylactoid syndrome in pregnancy

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O88.1

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O88: Obstetric embolism

embolism complicating abortion NOS (O03.2)
embolism complicating ectopic or molar pregnancy (O08.2)
embolism complicating failed attempted abortion (O07.2)
embolism complicating induced abortion (O04.7)
embolism complicating spontaneous abortion (O03.2, O03.7)

Other codes that can never be billed with O88.1

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

T81.7Vascular complications following a procedure, not elsewhere classified

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 O88.1

3 child codes. Green means billable.