ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O60.2 Term delivery with preterm labor › O60.20

O60.20

Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester

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 7 more specific codes instead:

  • O60.20X0 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, not applicable or unspecified
  • O60.20X1 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, fetus 1
  • O60.20X2 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, fetus 2
  • O60.20X3 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, fetus 3
  • O60.20X4 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, fetus 4
  • O60.20X5 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, fetus 5
  • O60.20X9 Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester, other fetus

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2014 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. FY2014 Added to the draft code set draft Term delivery with preterm labor, unspecified trimester

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 O60 Preterm labor

Excludes1 - never coded here

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

Includes

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

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.

Showing 40 of 47 index phrases.

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
O60.22 Term delivery with preterm labor, second trimester Not billable
O60.23 Term delivery with preterm labor, third trimester Not billable