O26.87Cervical shortening

O26.87 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for cervical shortening. 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 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within O26.8 (other specified pregnancy related conditions), O26.87 is specifically for cervical shortening. Related codes cover pregnancy related exhaustion and fatigue (O26.81), pregnancy related peripheral neuritis (O26.82), pregnancy related renal disease (O26.83), uterine size-date discrepancy complicating pregnancy (O26.84), Spotting complicating pregnancy (O26.85), pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) (O26.86) and other specified pregnancy related conditions (O26.89).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: O26.872 (second trimester), O26.873 (third trimester) and O26.879 (unspecified trimester).

Don't report O26.87 together with the conditions in its Excludes1 note: encounter for suspected cervical shortening ruled out (Z03.75).

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