O98.42 — Viral hepatitis complicating childbirth
O98.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for viral hepatitis complicating childbirth. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O98.42
Also inherited, and the opposite of Excludes1: these conditions are not part of O98.42, but a patient can have both, so you may code both.
Written on O98 — Maternal infectious and parasitic diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Risk adjustment
O98.42 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.
How O98.42 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O98.42.
- Delivery›complicated›by›infection›viral hepatitis
Code history
O98.42 has not changed since FY2024 — no addition, revision or deletion across the three most recent ICD-10-CM releases.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share O98.4. If O98.42 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about O98.42
- Is O98.42 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. O98.42 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does O98.42 sit in the tabular list?
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified (O94-O9A).