ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
O47 False labor
Header codeNot billable: use one of the 5 billable codes below
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Coding notes for O47
Includes Conditions this code covers.
- Braxton Hicks contractions
- threatened labor
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- preterm labor (O60.-)
Chapter 15 notes (apply to every code in it)
Note
- CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- supervision of normal pregnancy (Z34.-)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
Use additional code Add a second code for the detail named here.
- code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.
Codes under O47 6
- O47.0 False labor before 37 completed weeks of gestationHeader
- O47.00 False labor before 37 completed weeks of gestation, unspecified trimesterBillable
- O47.02 False labor before 37 completed weeks of gestation, second trimesterBillable
- O47.03 False labor before 37 completed weeks of gestation, third trimesterBillable
- O47.1 False labor at or after 37 completed weeks of gestationBillable
- O47.9 False labor, unspecifiedBillable
Other categories in O30-O48
- O30 Multiple gestationHeader
- O31 Complications specific to multiple gestationHeader
- O32 Maternal care for malpresentation of fetusHeader
- O33 Maternal care for disproportionHeader
- O34 Maternal care for abnormality of pelvic organsHeader
- O35 Maternal care for known or suspected fetal abnormality and damageHeader
- O36 Maternal care for other fetal problemsHeader
- O40 PolyhydramniosHeader
- O41 Other disorders of amniotic fluid and membranesHeader
- O42 Premature rupture of membranesHeader
- O43 Placental disordersHeader
- O44 Placenta previaHeader
- O45 Premature separation of placenta [abruptio placentae]Header
- O46 Antepartum hemorrhage, not elsewhere classifiedHeader
- O48 Late pregnancyHeader
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