O98.4

O98.4: Viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O98.4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. 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.

Conditions in B15-B19

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O98.4

Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.

Written on O98: Maternal infectious and parasitic diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

herpes gestationis (O26.4-)
infectious carrier state (O99.82-, O99.83-)
obstetrical tetanus (A34)
puerperal infection (O86.-)
puerperal sepsis (O85)
when the reason for maternal care is that the disease is known or suspected to have affected the fetus (O35-O36)

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 O98.4

3 child codes. Green means billable.