O98.8

O98.8: Other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

O98.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O98.8

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 O98.8

3 child codes. Green means billable.

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O98.8

Risk adjustment

Code history

Code to one of these instead O98.8

Other codes under O98