DxCodebookFY2027 · Oct 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2027

O76 diagnosis code · Billable category · FY2027

O76 Abnormality in fetal heart rate and rhythm complicating labor and delivery

  • Billable
  • Not CC/MCC
  • POA reported

O76 ICD-10 code: a billable diagnosis code in FY2027; the category has no subdivisions.

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 15 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  2. O60-O77 Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77)
  3. O76 Abnormality in fetal heart rate and rhythm complicating labor and delivery
CC / MCC
Neither
MS-DRG
998
HCC V28
–
POA
Reported
Code Editor
Maternity
Index entries
2

Instructions

At O76

Inclusion terms

  • Depressed fetal heart rate tones complicating labor and delivery
  • Fetal bradycardia complicating labor and delivery
  • Fetal heart rate decelerations complicating labor and delivery
  • Fetal heart rate irregularity complicating labor and delivery
  • Fetal heart rate abnormal variability complicating labor and delivery
  • Fetal tachycardia complicating labor and delivery
  • Non-reassuring fetal heart rate or rhythm complicating labor and delivery

Excludes1

  • fetal stress NOS (O77.9) O77.9
  • labor and delivery complicated by electrocardiographic evidence of fetal stress (O77.8) O77.8
  • labor and delivery complicated by ultrasonic evidence of fetal stress (O77.8) O77.8

Excludes2

  • fetal metabolic acidemia (O68) O68
  • other fetal stress (O77.0-O77.1) O77.0 O77.1

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

  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbydepressed fetal heart tones → O76
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalheart rate or rhythm (abnormal) (non-reassuring) → O76

NCHS Alphabetic Index. Index first, then the Tabular List.

Medicare grouping and edits

CMS files for O76
CC / MCCNeither
Appendix BMDC 14 Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium, MS-DRG 998
Code EditorAge conflict: maternity diagnosis (age 9–64)
POAReported
HCC V28–

CMS: MS-DRG v44 (Appendix B, C), MCE v44, POA list FY2027, 2027 Initial ICD-10-CM Mappings. What the rows mean.

Hierarchy