O90.6
O90.6: Postpartum mood disturbance
Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM
O90.6 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for postpartum mood disturbance. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Check O90.6 with the rest of the claim: free scrubberExcludes1: 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.
- Postpartum blues
- Postpartum dysphoria
- Postpartum sadness
Other codes that can never be billed with O90.6
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- F53Mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium, not elsewhere classified
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Alphabetic index entries that lead here
- Blues, postpartal
- Sadness, postpartal
- Blues, postpartal›baby
- Dysphoria›postpartal
- Puerperal, puerperium›mood disturbance
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Other codes under O90
- O90.0Disruption of cesarean delivery wound
- O90.1Disruption of perineal obstetric wound
- O90.2Hematoma of obstetric wound
- O90.3Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- O90.4Postpartum acute kidney failure
- O90.5Postpartum thyroiditis
- O90.8Other complications of the puerperium, not elsewhere classified
- O90.9Complication of the puerperium, unspecified