O26.6Liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

O26.6 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It belongs to category O26 (maternal care for other conditions predominantly related to pregnancy), block O20-O29 (other maternal disorders predominantly related to pregnancy) and chapter 15 (pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within O26 (maternal care for other conditions predominantly related to pregnancy), O26.6 is specifically for liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. Related codes cover excessive weight gain in pregnancy (O26.0), low weight gain in pregnancy (O26.1), pregnancy care for patient with recurrent pregnancy loss (O26.2), retained intrauterine contraceptive device in pregnancy (O26.3), herpes gestationis (O26.4), maternal hypotension syndrome (O26.5), subluxation of symphysis (pubis) in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O26.7), other specified pregnancy related conditions (O26.8) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: O26.61 (pregnancy), O26.62 (childbirth), O26.63 (puerperium) and O26.64 (pregnancy).

The conditions in its Excludes2 note aren't part of O26.6, but may be coded alongside it if the patient has both: hepatorenal syndrome following labor and delivery (O90.41).

Use an additional code to identify the specific disorder.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.