ICD-10-CM › O00-O9A › O60-O77 › O72 Postpartum hemorrhage › O72.1
O72.1
Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 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.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Other immediate postpartum 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 O72 Postpartum hemorrhage
Includes
- hemorrhage after delivery of fetus or infant
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.
- Labor
- Childbirth
- Postpartum
- Puerperium
- Parturition
- Accouchement
- Malposition > fetus
- Presentation, fetal
- Delivery > obstructed
- Complication > puerperium
- Disease, diseased > puerperal
- Birth > complications in mother
- Delivery > complicated > by > tear
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > puerperal
- Puerperal, puerperium > metrorrhagia
- Delivery > complicated > by > bleeding
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > after delivery
- Delivery > complicated > by > perforation
- Delivery > complicated > by > metrorrhexis
- Obstruction, obstructed, obstructive > labor
- Delivery > complicated > by > disruptio uteri
- Puerperal, puerperium > diabetes > gestational
- Pregnancy > complicated by > presentation, fetal
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > intrauterine > postpartum
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > uterus, uterine > postpartum
- Abnormal, abnormality, abnormalities > uterine hemorrhage
- Delivery > complicated > by > injury > nonobstetric > caused by abuse
- Delivery > complicated > by > malposition, malpresentation > without obstruction
- Metrorrhagia > postpartum NEC
- Puerperal, puerperium > hemorrhage
- Bleeding > atonic, following delivery
- Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic > postpartum NEC
- Atonia, atony, atonic > uterus > postpartum
- Atonia, atony, atonic > uterus > with hemorrhage
- Delivery > complicated > by > hemorrhage > postpartum NEC
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| O72.0 | Third-stage hemorrhage | Valid |
| O72.2 | Delayed and secondary postpartum hemorrhage | Valid |
| O72.3 | Postpartum coagulation defects | Valid |