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O90.4

Postpartum acute kidney failure

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

Billable FY2016 to FY2023, and a category header from FY2024.

Submit one of these 2 more specific codes instead:

  • O90.41 Hepatorenal syndrome following labor and delivery
  • O90.49 Other postpartum acute kidney failure

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.

  1. FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Postpartum acute renal failure
  2. FY2010 Draft description revised draft Postpartum acute renal failure Postpartum acute kidney failure
  3. FY2024 Stopped being billable

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 the O85-O92 section Complications predominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92)

Excludes2 - not included here

  • mental and behavioral disorders associated with the puerperium (F53.-)
  • obstetrical tetanus (A34)
  • puerperal osteomalacia (M83.0)

Codes in the same group

CodeDescriptionStatus
O90.0 Disruption of cesarean delivery wound Valid
O90.1 Disruption of perineal obstetric wound Valid
O90.2 Hematoma of obstetric wound Valid
O90.3 Peripartum cardiomyopathy Valid
O90.5 Postpartum thyroiditis Valid
O90.6 Postpartum mood disturbance Valid
O90.8 Other complications of the puerperium, not elsewhere classified Not billable
O90.9 Complication of the puerperium, unspecified Valid