ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O30-O48 › O46.8 Other antepartum hemorrhage › O46.8X

O46.8X

Other antepartum hemorrhage

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 4 more specific codes instead:

  • O46.8X1 Other antepartum hemorrhage, first trimester
  • O46.8X2 Other antepartum hemorrhage, second trimester
  • O46.8X3 Other antepartum hemorrhage, third trimester
  • O46.8X9 Other antepartum hemorrhage, unspecified trimester

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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Other antepartum hemorrhage

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.

Inherited from O46 Antepartum hemorrhage, not elsewhere classified

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • hemorrhage in early pregnancy (O20.-)
  • intrapartum hemorrhage NEC (O67.-)
  • placenta previa (O44.-)
  • premature separation of placenta [abruptio placentae] (O45.-)

How CDC's index refers to this code

Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.