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O26.63 ICD-10-CM Code: Liver and biliary tract disorders in the puerperium

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Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
3 Excludes2 · 1 use-additional code

Billable · FY2027A valid, specific ICD-10-CM code, reportable for dates of service in FY2027.

What you need to know

Source: CMS/NCHS Official ICD-10-CM tabular notes, quoted. From the CMS/NCHS tabular list for the release in force. A note the category or block publishes applies to this code too; the Instructions section marks which is which.

Use additional codeReport with this code when documented
  • code to identify the specific disorder
Excludes2Not included here; may be reported together
  • hepatorenal syndrome following labor and delivery (O90.41)
  • maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems (O30-O48)
  • maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the puerperium (O98-O99)

Most relevant related codes MedCoder-derived

Read off the official notes above and this code’s own position in the tabular list. Which to report is a documentation question; Compare shows the two side by side.

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Inpatient Payment Groups (MS-DRG)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

MS-DRGs this diagnosis helps define, as principal or secondary, per the CMS ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRG Definitions Manual v44, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 769 — POSTPARTUM AND POST ABORTION DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 776 — POSTPARTUM AND POST ABORTION DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES (MDC 14)

A diagnosis appearing in a group's logic does not by itself determine the DRG assigned to a stay; the grouper uses the full claim.

Coding instructions

Official Tabular Instructional Notes: the inclusion, exclusion and sequencing notes published for O26.63 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2027Effective: October 1, 2026

Trace:FY2027 changesChange historyRelease, file and checksum

Notes without a marker are published on O26.63 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

Conditions not covered by this code, but which may be reported alongside it when both are present.

Use Additional Code

Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.

  • Use additional code to identify the specific disorder

Source: inherited from O26.6

Coder workflow for O26.63

MedCoder structured workflow — derived from this code’s own official record

Before you code O26.63

  1. Confirm the condition is documented as complicating the pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium, and check the trimester where the code carries one and the fetus character where the category requires it. Chapter 15 codes belong on the maternal record only and take sequencing priority over codes from other chapters. It is the provider’s responsibility to state that a condition is not affecting the pregnancy; the trimester is assigned from the documentation (Guidelines I.C.15.a, I.C.15.a.1, I.C.15.a.3).

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Documentation check

The provider’s diagnostic statement
Codes are assigned from the provider’s documented diagnosis, not from clinical criteria, test values or a medication list (Guidelines I.A.19).
Trimester
Assigned from the documented trimester at the encounter, or the trimester in which the condition developed for inpatient stays (Guidelines I.C.15.a.3).
The conditions the Use Additional Code note names
Reported with this code when documented; a conditional instruction (“if applicable”, “if known”) applies only when the record supports it.

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of O26.63(3 notes)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in O26.63. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareO90.41

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.12.b

  • Use Additional Code — after identifying O26.63(1 note)

    Coding workflow: Check whether the documentation supports the additional code(s) the note names, and report them with O26.63 when it does. Where the instruction is conditional (“if applicable”, “if known”), it applies only when the record documents the condition.

    See the official tabular notes · Guidelines I.A.13

Coding decision scenarios

Pattern scenarios for this code’s structure — decision rules, not clinical cases

Documentation: A condition the Use Additional Code note names is documented.

Coding question: Is a second code reported with O26.63?

Path: Review the Use Additional Code note and the code it names.

Reason: The additional code is reported when the record documents the condition; a conditional instruction applies only when its condition is met (Guidelines I.A.13).

Every row is derived from this code’s own record — its title, tabular notes, 7th-character family and same-category siblings — with fixed MedCoder wording; nothing is inferred about a patient. The official notes and guideline text are in the sections each row links to, and they control.

Don’t confuse O26.63 with…

MedCoder analysis — pairs from this code’s official notes, distinctions written by MedCoder

The codes most likely to be picked instead of O26.63 — named in its own official notes, or sharing its laterality or encounter family — with what separates them and which documentation moves the case. Each links to the full comparison.

  • O90.41— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of hepatorenal syndrome following labor and delivery adds O90.41; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O26.63 vs O90.41 →

  • O30— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems adds O30; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O26.63 vs O30 →

  • O48— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of maternal care related to the fetus and amniotic cavity and possible delivery problems adds O48; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O26.63 vs O48 →

  • O98— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the puerperium adds O98; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O26.63 vs O98 →

  • O99— Excludes2 relationship (Informational)

    Distinct conditions — both may be reported.

    A distinct condition — both may be reported when both are documented.

    What moves you there: Documentation of maternal diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the puerperium adds O99; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O26.63 vs O99 →

Relationships are read from this code's own official notes, its laterality siblings and its encounter family; the wording of each distinction is MedCoder editorial, and the documentation named in each “what moves you there” line is the official note phrase or sibling title itself. Source: CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a.

Coding context

Guidelines, coding notes, decision aids, relationships (with MS-DRG and CCSR classification), hierarchy, HCC, coverage and the context map: what a coder reaches for after the core. Each section names whether it is official source data, a MedCoder-derived relationship or MedCoder editorial.

Code Overview

Liver and biliary tract disorders in the puerperium is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (O26.63).

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official ICD-10-CM record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Verify Before Coding

  • Age-restricted: the Medicare Code Editor lists this as a maternity (age 9-64) diagnosis; other ages are presumed incorrect.

From the code registry, the Medicare Code Editor, and the MS-DRG Definitions Manual. Check it against a full claim in Claim Check.

Relationships & Classification

MedCoder-derived relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name O26.63 or its code family, from the CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes. Tabular-note edges are stored at the code family level that carries each note.

Referenced by 1 Excludes1 note: Z03.7 — Encounter for suspected maternal and fetal conditions ruled out (via O26.-).

These codes’ tabular lists mark this diagnosis as mutually exclusive — not reported together unless the conditions are documented as unrelated.

Referenced by 2 Excludes2 notes across 2 chapters: K72 — Hepatic failure, not elsewhere classified (via O26.6.-), O99.6 — Diseases of the digestive system complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (via O26.6.-).

These codes’ tabular lists name this diagnosis as distinct — both may be reported when both are documented.

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2027)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2027 MS-DRG: not on the CMS CC/MCC list — as a secondary diagnosis this code does not change MS-DRG severity for that release.

Named in the grouper logic of 2 MS-DRGs: DRG 769 (MDC 14), DRG 776 (MDC 14).

From the CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendices B and C). Actual DRG assignment depends on the complete claim.

Clinical classification (AHRQ CCSR):PRG027 — Complications specified during the puerperium (default); DIG019 — Other specified and unspecified liver disease.

Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) for ICD-10-CM Diagnoses. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Related Codes

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical categories (Complications specified during the puerperium, Other specified and unspecified liver disease).

O24.435 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in puerperium, controlled by oral hypoglycemic drugs, O24.439 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, unspecified control, O24.83 — Other pre-existing diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, O24.93 — Unspecified diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, O25.3 — Malnutrition in the puerperium, O26.611 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, first trimester, O26.612 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, second trimester, O26.613 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, third trimester, O26.619 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in pregnancy, unspecified trimester, O26.62 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in childbirth, O26.641 — Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, first trimester, O26.642 — Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, second trimester, O26.643 — Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, third trimester, O26.649 — Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, unspecified trimester, O26.73 — Subluxation of symphysis (pubis) in the puerperium, O71.2 — Postpartum inversion of uterus, O72.0 — Third-stage hemorrhage, O72.1 — Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage, O72.2 — Delayed and secondary postpartum hemorrhage, O72.3 — Postpartum coagulation defects, +165 more

Same Index main term, other category

The ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries files this code under the main term “Puerperal, puerperium”; these codes share that main term but sit in a different category of the Tabular List.

O24.03 — Pre-existing type 1 diabetes mellitus, in the puerperium (diabetes, pre-existing, type 1), O24.13 — Pre-existing type 2 diabetes mellitus, in the puerperium (diabetes, pre-existing, type 2), O24.33 — Unspecified pre-existing diabetes mellitus in the puerperium (diabetes, pre-existing), O24.430 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, diet controlled (gestational, diabetes, diet controlled), O24.434 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, insulin controlled (gestational, diabetes, insulincontrolled), O24.435 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in puerperium, controlled by oral hypoglycemic drugs (gestational, diabetes, oral drug controlled), O24.439 — Gestational diabetes mellitus in the puerperium, unspecified control (gestational, diabetes), O24.83 — Other pre-existing diabetes mellitus in the puerperium (diabetes, pre-existing, specified NEC), O24.93 — Unspecified diabetes mellitus in the puerperium (diabetes), O25.3 — Malnutrition in the puerperium (malnutrition), O72.0 — Third-stage hemorrhage (retention, placenta), O72.1 — Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage (hemorrhage), O72.2 — Delayed and secondary postpartum hemorrhage (hemorrhage, uterine, delayed), O72.3 — Postpartum coagulation defects (blood dyscrasia), O85 — Puerperal sepsis (pyemia), O86.09 — Infection of obstetric surgical wound, other surgical site (infection, genital tract NEC, obstetric surgical wound), O86.11 — Cervicitis following delivery (cervicitis), O86.12 — Endometritis following delivery (pyometra), O86.13 — Vaginitis following delivery (vaginitis), O86.19 — Other infection of genital tract following delivery (vulvitis), +78 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of O26.63 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

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Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 notes

Referenced by Excludes2 notes

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

MDC crossing

  • MDC 14 — Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium[MDC crossing]: “Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium — the grouper's crossing between diagnoses and procedures: a principal diagnosis sets the MDC, and same-MDC procedures move the stay to its surgical DRGs. 94 same-MDC procedures group here; browse them on the MDC page.”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual · FY2027

Index entries

  • Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications), disorder, biliary tract[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications), disorder, liver[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications), necrosis, liver (acute) (subacute) (conditions in subcategory K72.0)[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027

Nearest codes (40)

Change history

  • FY2016 — In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger) · icd10cm-fy2016

Reference

Index terms and tables, published questions and FAQ, every source behind this page with its release and checksum, the date-of-service check and the complete change history.

Indexed Clinical Terms (3)

Official source data — entries quoted as published, in the Index’s own lookup phrasing

Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code. These are alphabetic-index entries shown as the Index writes them — lookup phrasing, not necessarily the wording of a final diagnosis.

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

Code, title, tabular notes and index terms Official source data
CMS/CDC ICD-10-CM FY2027 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2026 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v44.0 (October 2026) Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Inpatient payment groups Official source data
CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (incl. Appendix B diagnosis index, Appendix C CC/MCC list, Appendix E procedure index) and IPPS Final Rule tables — v44 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS ICD-10-CM release addenda, ingested release by release into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder-derived relationship
Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder editorial explanation
Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

Current data releases:ICD-10-CM FY2027 · ICD-10-PCS FY2027 · HCPCS October 2026 · MS-DRG v44 · Medicare Code Editor v44.0 · NCCI PTP Q4 2026 · MUE Q4 2026 · NCD code lists 2026-01 · LCD export September 28, 2026 · All releases and sources

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MedCoder.ai. "O26.63 — Liver and biliary tract disorders in the puerperium." ICD-10-CM FY2027. https://medcoder.ai/icd10/code/o26.63-liver-and-biliary-tract-disorders-in-the-puerperium

Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Liver and biliary tract disorders in the puerperium

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027, and none are recorded for this code. Note changes are tracked from FY2027 only.

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official ICD-10-CM classifications closest to O26.63 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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