DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

Category · FY2027

O73 Retained placenta and membranes, without hemorrhage

  • Header · not billable

O73 is not billable. The category heads 2 billable codes in FY2027: the 2 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Trapped placenta (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Adherentplacenta (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Retentionplacenta (total) (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 15 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  2. O60-O77 Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77)
  3. O73 Retained placenta and membranes, without hemorrhage
Billable codes
2
Subdivisions
2
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
16

Codes in O73

  1. O73.0
    Retained placenta without hemorrhage
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2

    Inclusion terms

    • Adherent placenta, without hemorrhage
    • Trapped placenta without hemorrhage
  2. O73.1
    Retained portions of placenta and membranes, without hemorrhage
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 1

    Inclusion terms

    • Retained products of conception following delivery, without hemorrhage

Sources of each column.

Instructions

At O73

Excludes1

  • placenta accreta (O43.21-) O43.21
  • placenta increta (O43.22-) O43.22
  • placenta percreta (O43.23-) O43.23

Notes that also apply

Chapter 15 instructions (Notes 6, Excludes1 1, Excludes2 4, Use additional code 1): printed on the chapter 15 page.

Index entries

  • Trapped placenta (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Adherentplacenta (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Retentionplacenta (total) (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Retentionsecundines (following delivery) (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Membrane(s), membranousretained (with hemorrhage) (complicating delivery)without hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Retentiondecidua (fragments) (following delivery) (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Retentionmembranes (complicating delivery) (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Retentionplacenta (total) (with hemorrhage)portions or fragments (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Retentionsecundines (following delivery) (with hemorrhage)partialwithout hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyadherent placentawithout hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyretention of secundines (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyretained membranes or portions of placentawithout hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Retentionproducts of conceptionfollowingdelivery (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.1
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyplacenta, placentaladherent (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyplacenta, placentalretained (with hemorrhage)without hemorrhage → O73.0
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyretention of secundines (with hemorrhage)partialwithout hemorrhage → O73.1

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