Spontaneous abortion

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 10 more specific codes instead:

O03.0 Genital tract and pelvic infection following incomplete spontaneous abortion
O03.1 Delayed or excessive hemorrhage following incomplete spontaneous abortion
O03.2 Embolism following incomplete spontaneous abortion
O03.3 Other and unspecified complications following incomplete spontaneous abortion (also a header)
O03.4 Incomplete spontaneous abortion without complication
O03.5 Genital tract and pelvic infection following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion
O03.6 Delayed or excessive hemorrhage following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion
O03.7 Embolism following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion
O03.8 Other and unspecified complications following complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion (also a header)
O03.9 Complete or unspecified spontaneous abortion without complication

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Spontaneous abortion

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Includes

miscarriage

Note

Incomplete abortion includes retained products of conception following spontaneous abortion

Inherited from the O00-O08 section Pregnancy with abortive outcome (O00-O08)

Excludes1 - never coded here

continuing pregnancy in multiple gestation after abortion of one fetus or more (O31.1-, O31.3-)