O71.8Other specified obstetric trauma

O71.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other specified obstetric trauma. It belongs to category O71 (other obstetric trauma), block O60-O77 (complications of labor and delivery) 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 O71, choose O71.8 (Other specified obstetric trauma) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: rupture of uterus (spontaneous) before onset of labor (O71.0), rupture of uterus during labor (O71.1), postpartum inversion of uterus (O71.2), obstetric laceration of cervix (O71.3), obstetric high vaginal laceration alone (O71.4), other obstetric injury to pelvic organs (O71.5), obstetric damage to pelvic joints and ligaments (O71.6), obstetric hematoma of pelvis (O71.7) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: O71.81 (classified), O71.82 (vulva) and O71.89 (trauma).

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