O98.8Other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium

O98.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. It belongs to category O98 (maternal infectious and parasitic diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium), block O94-O9A (other obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified) 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 O98, choose O98.8 (Other maternal infectious and parasitic diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: tuberculosis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.0), syphilis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.1), gonorrhea complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.2), other infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.3), viral hepatitis complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.4), other viral diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.5), protozoal diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.6), human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O98.7) and 1 more.

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: O98.81 (pregnancy), O98.82 (childbirth) and O98.83 (puerperium).

Use an additional code (Chapter 1), to identify specific infectious or parasitic disease.

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