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O99.03

O99.03: Anemia complicating the puerperium

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O99.03 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for anemia complicating the puerperium. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Check O99.03 with the rest of the claim: free scrubber

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

  • postpartum anemia not pre-existing prior to delivery (O90.81)

Excludes1 inherited from the categories above O99.03

A category’s note binds every code beneath it.

Written on O99.0: Anemia complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

  • anemia arising in the puerperium (O90.81)
  • postpartum anemia NOS (O90.81)

Excludes2 inherited from the categories above O99.03

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

Written on O99: Other maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

  • when the reason for maternal care is that the condition is known or suspected to have affected the fetus (O35-O36)

Other codes that can never be billed with O99.03

Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.

  • O90.81Anemia of the puerperium

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

  • Valsuani's disease
  • Puerperal, puerperium›anemia›pre-existing(pre-pregnancy)
  • Puerperal, puerperium›disease›Valsuani's
  • Pregnancy›complicated by›anemia›complicating the puerperium

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Other codes under O99.0

ICD-10-CMFY2027· effective October 1, 2026

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