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Category · FY2027

O77 Other fetal stress complicating labor and delivery

  • Header · not billable

O77 is not billable. The category heads 4 billable codes in FY2027: the 4 codes directly below it.

Index → code

  • Stressfetalcomplicating pregnancy → O77.9
  • Stressfetalcomplicating pregnancydue to drug administration → O77.1
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbymeconium in amniotic fluid → O77.0

Where it sits

  1. Chapter 15 Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  2. O60-O77 Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77)
  3. O77 Other fetal stress complicating labor and delivery
Billable codes
4
Subdivisions
4
CC / MCC codes
0 / 0
HCC V28 codes
0
New FY2027
0
Index entries
9

Codes in O77

  1. O77.0
    Labor and delivery complicated by meconium in amniotic fluid
    Billable
  2. O77.1
    Fetal stress in labor or delivery due to drug administration
    Billable
  3. O77.8
    Labor and delivery complicated by other evidence of fetal stress
    Billable
    Inclusion terms 2, Excludes1 3

    Inclusion terms

    • Labor and delivery complicated by electrocardiographic evidence of fetal stress
    • Labor and delivery complicated by ultrasonic evidence of fetal stress

    Excludes1

    • abnormality of fetal acid-base balance (O68) O68
    • abnormality in fetal heart rate or rhythm (O76) O76
    • fetal metabolic acidemia (O68) O68
  4. O77.9
    Labor and delivery complicated by fetal stress, unspecified
    Billable
    Excludes1 3

    Excludes1

    • abnormality of fetal acid-base balance (O68) O68
    • abnormality in fetal heart rate or rhythm (O76) O76
    • fetal metabolic acidemia (O68) O68

Sources of each column.

Instructions

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

  • Stressfetalcomplicating pregnancy → O77.9
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbymeconium in amniotic fluid → O77.0
  • Stressfetalcomplicating pregnancydue to drug administration → O77.1
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalhypoxia → O77.8
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalstress → O77.9
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalstressdue to drug administration → O77.1
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalstresselectrocardiographic evidence of → O77.8
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalstressspecified NEC → O77.8
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor)complicatedbyfetalstressultrasound evidence of → O77.8

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