O98.1
O98.1 — Syphilis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
O98.1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for syphilis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
Risk adjustment
O98.1 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 to one of these instead O98.1
3 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O98. If O98.1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- O98.0Tuberculosis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.2Gonorrhea complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.3Other infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.4Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.5Other viral diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.6Protozoal diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.8Other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- O98.9Unspecified maternal infectious and parasitic disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Questions about O98.1
- Is O98.1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. O98.1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does O98.1 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (O94-O9A).