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O66.8 ICD-10-CM Code: Other specified obstructed labor

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
1 use-additional code

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 v43, Appendix B.

  • MS-DRG 817 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 818 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH CC (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 819 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 831 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 832 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH CC (MDC 14)
  • MS-DRG 833 — OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC (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 O66.8 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list, quoted as published.

Source: CMS/CDC — ICD-10-CM Tabular ListRelease: FY2026Effective: October 1, 2025

Use Additional Code

Supplementary codes the tabular list directs you to add.

  • Use additional code to identify cause of obstruction

Coder workflow for O66.8

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

Before you code O66.8

  1. “Other” (NEC) means the condition is specified in the record but no dedicated code captures it. Confirm the documented form is not one a sibling code names before settling on O66.8; if the record states no specifics at all, the unspecified sibling applies instead. “Other” codes are for documented conditions the classification gives no specific code; “unspecified” codes are for records lacking the detail (Guidelines I.A.9.a, I.A.9.b).

    ReviewO66.0, O66.1, O66.2, O66.3, O66.4, O66.5, O66.6

    See the relationships section · Guide: Other vs unspecified (NEC vs NOS) →

  2. 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).

    Guide: How to choose an ICD-10-CM code →

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).
Fetus affected
For multiple gestations, the fetus the condition affects, as documented.
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.
Any detail beyond this code’s title
What the record states that a more specific sibling code would capture — or its absence, which itself supports the unspecified code.

Official instructions as workflow

  • Use Additional Code — after identifying O66.8(1 note)

    Coding workflow: Check whether the documentation supports the additional code(s) the note names, and report them with O66.8 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 O66.8?

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.

Code Overview

Other specified obstructed labor is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (O66.8).

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

Indexed Clinical Terms (2)

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.

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 structured relationships — computed from published CMS and AHRQ datasets

Other codes that name O66.8 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: O33 — Maternal care for disproportion (via O66.-).

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

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2026)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2026 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 6 MS-DRGs: DRG 817 (MDC 14), DRG 818 (MDC 14), DRG 819 (MDC 14), DRG 831 (MDC 14), DRG 832 (MDC 14), DRG 833 (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):PRG024 — Malposition, disproportion or other labor complications (default).

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 category (Malposition, disproportion or other labor complications).

O65.8 — Obstructed labor due to other maternal pelvic abnormalities, O65.9 — Obstructed labor due to maternal pelvic abnormality, unspecified, O66.0 — Obstructed labor due to shoulder dystocia, O66.1 — Obstructed labor due to locked twins, O66.2 — Obstructed labor due to unusually large fetus, O66.3 — Obstructed labor due to other abnormalities of fetus, O66.40 — Failed trial of labor, unspecified, O66.41 — Failed attempted vaginal birth after previous cesarean delivery, O66.5 — Attempted application of vacuum extractor and forceps, O66.6 — Obstructed labor due to other multiple fetuses, O66.9 — Obstructed labor, unspecified, O68 — Labor and delivery complicated by abnormality of fetal acid-base balance, O69.0XX0 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, not applicable or unspecified, O69.0XX1 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, fetus 1, O69.0XX2 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, fetus 2, O69.0XX3 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, fetus 3, O69.0XX4 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, fetus 4, O69.0XX5 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, fetus 5, O69.0XX9 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord, other fetus, O69.1XX0 — Labor and delivery complicated by cord around neck, with compression, not applicable or unspecified, +239 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

O64.8 — Obstructed labor due to other malposition and malpresentation (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, footling presentation), O64.9 — Obstructed labor due to malposition and malpresentation, unspecified (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, malposition), O65.0 — Obstructed labor due to deformed pelvis (cesarean, abnormal, pelvis, with obstructed labor), O65.1 — Obstructed labor due to generally contracted pelvis (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, contracted pelvis), O65.2 — Obstructed labor due to pelvic inlet contraction (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, pelvic, contraction, inlet), O65.3 — Obstructed labor due to pelvic outlet and mid-cavity contraction (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, pelvic, contraction, outlet), O65.4 — Obstructed labor due to fetopelvic disproportion, unspecified (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, fetopelvic disproportion), O65.5 — Obstructed labor due to abnormality of maternal pelvic organs (complicated, by, female genital mutilation), O65.8 — Obstructed labor due to other maternal pelvic abnormalities (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, pelvic, abnormality, specified NEC), O65.9 — Obstructed labor due to maternal pelvic abnormality, unspecified (complicated, by, obstructed labor, due to, pelvic, abnormality), O67.0 — Intrapartum hemorrhage with coagulation defect (cesarean, hemorrhage, with coagulation defect), O67.8 — Other intrapartum hemorrhage (cesarean, hemorrhage, specified cause NEC), O67.9 — Intrapartum hemorrhage, unspecified (cesarean, hemorrhage), O68 — Labor and delivery complicated by abnormality of fetal acid-base balance (complicated, by, fetal, acidosis), O69.0 — Labor and delivery complicated by prolapse of cord (complicated, by, prolapse, cord), O69.1 — Labor and delivery complicated by cord around neck, with compression (complicated, by, cord, around neck, with compression), O69.2 — Labor and delivery complicated by other cord entanglement, with compression (complicated, by, cord, entanglement), O69.3 — Labor and delivery complicated by short cord (complicated, by, cord, short), O69.4 — Labor and delivery complicated by vasa previa (complicated, by, vasa previa), O69.5 — Labor and delivery complicated by vascular lesion of cord (complicated, by, cord, hematoma), +168 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of O66.8 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.

Run O66.8 with this related code in Claim Check

Hierarchy

Referenced by Excludes1 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 · FY2026

Index entries

  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor), complicated, by, dilatation, bladder[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor), complicated, by, obstructed labor, specified NEC[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2026

Nearest codes (11)

Change history

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

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 FY2026 tabular list, index and tables, effective October 1, 2025 Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Claim edits Official source data
CMS Definitions of Medicare Code Edits — v43.1 (April 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 — v43 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 structured 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 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.

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Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Other specified obstructed labor

No changes since FY2016 — additions, deletions, description changes and billable-status changes are tracked through FY2027 (effective October 1, 2026), 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 O66.8 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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