Is O75.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?

Yes. O75.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.

Where does O75.3 sit in the tabular list?

Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).

O75.3

O75.3 — Other infection during labor

Billable / specific codeICD-10-CM

O75.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other infection during labor. It is valid for submission on a claim.

Use additional code

Add a secondary code to capture the detail described below.

code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

Inclusion terms

Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.

Sepsis during labor

Risk adjustment

O75.3 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.

How O75.3 is indexed

Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to O75.3.

Infection, infected, infective›during labor NEC
Sepsis›during labor

Related codes at this level

Codes that share O75. If O75.3 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.

Questions about O75.3

Is O75.3 a billable ICD-10-CM code?: Yes. O75.3 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
Where does O75.3 sit in the tabular list?: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A), in the block Complications of labor and delivery (O60-O77).