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O60

Preterm labor

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 3 more specific codes instead:

  • O60.0 Preterm labor without delivery (also a header)
  • O60.1 Preterm labor with preterm delivery (also a header)
  • O60.2 Term delivery with preterm labor (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.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Preterm labor

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

Excludes1 - never coded here

  • false labor (O47.0-)
  • threatened labor NOS (O47.0-)

Includes

  • onset (spontaneous) of labor before 37 completed weeks of gestation