Pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

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 6 more specific codes instead:

O10.0 Pre-existing essential hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)
O10.1 Pre-existing hypertensive heart disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)
O10.2 Pre-existing hypertensive chronic kidney disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)
O10.3 Pre-existing hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)
O10.4 Pre-existing secondary hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)
O10.9 Unspecified pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (also a header)

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 Pre-existing hypertension complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

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

Excludes2 - not included here

pre-existing hypertension with superimposed pre-eclampsia complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O11.-)

Includes

pre-existing hypertension with pre-existing proteinuria complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium