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O75.1 ICD-10-CM Code: Shock during or following labor and delivery

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

Coding at a Glance

Tabular directives
1 inclusion term · 2 Excludes2

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, and is marked with where it comes from.

Excludes2from O75Not included here; may be reported together
  • puerperal (postpartum) infection (O86.-)
  • puerperal (postpartum) sepsis (O85)
IncludesWhat this code covers
  • Obstetric shock following labor and delivery

Where it sits Source: CMS/NCHS

Under:Chapter 15: Pregnancy, Childbirth and the PuerperiumO60-O77 Complications of labor and deliveryO75 Other complications of labor and delivery, not elsewhere classified

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 998 — PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS INVALID AS DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS (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 O75.1 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 O75.1 itself; “inherited from” names the category or block whose note applies here.

Inclusion Terms

Alternative terms the tabular list files under this code.

  • Obstetric shock following labor and delivery

Excludes2 — Not Included Here

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

Source: inherited from O75

Coder workflow for O75.1

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

Before you code O75.1

  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).

Official instructions as workflow

  • Excludes2 — not part of O75.1(2 notes)

    Coding workflow: The conditions named in this note are not included in O75.1. When the record documents both, both may be reported; the note is a boundary, not a prohibition.

    CompareO86, O85

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

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 O75.1 with…

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

The codes most likely to be picked instead of O75.1 — 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.

  • O75.9— Specificity relationship (Review)

    Overlapping diagnoses in the same category.

    Overlapping codes in the same category — the documentation decides which is the more specific fit.

    What moves you there: A record that documents no more than “Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified” takes O75.9; specificity in the record moves it back here.

    Full comparison: O75.1 vs O75.9 →

  • O86— 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 puerperal (postpartum) infection adds O86; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O75.1 vs O86 →

  • O85— 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 puerperal (postpartum) sepsis adds O85; it is not part of this code and both may be reported when both are documented.

    Full comparison: O75.1 vs O85 →

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

Shock during or following labor and delivery is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (O75.1).

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.
  • MCC as a secondary diagnosis (FY2027). Can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier.

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 O75.1 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 4 Excludes1 notes across 2 chapters: R55 — Syncope and collapse, R57 — Shock, not elsewhere classified, T79.4 — Traumatic shock, T81.1 — Postprocedural shock.

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

MS-DRG Grouper Relationships (FY2027)

Potential MS-DRG participation — not a DRG assignment.

FY2027 MS-DRG: MCC — Major Complication or Comorbidity. Reported as a secondary diagnosis, this code raises the stay's MS-DRG severity tier — except when the principal diagnosis is one of 221 clinically related codes on its CMS exclusion list.

Named in the grouper logic of 1 MS-DRG: DRG 998 (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):PRG023 — Complications specified during childbirth (default); SYM003 — Shock.

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 process (MS-DRG)

Acts as MCC — raises the severity of other admissions. CMS groups these diagnoses into one MS-DRG principal-diagnosis exclusion process — a CC/MCC on this list never raises severity when the principal diagnosis is also on it.

O29.91 — Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy, first trimester, O29.92 — Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy, second trimester, O29.93 — Unspecified complication of anesthesia during pregnancy, third trimester, O35.7XX0 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, not applicable or unspecified, O35.7XX1 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, fetus 1, O35.7XX2 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, fetus 2, O35.7XX3 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, fetus 3, O35.7XX4 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, fetus 4, O35.7XX5 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, fetus 5, O35.7XX9 — Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus by other medical procedures, other fetus, O75.4 — Other complications of obstetric surgery and procedures, O75.81 — Maternal exhaustion complicating labor and delivery, O75.89 — Other specified complications of labor and delivery, O75.9 — Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified, O80 — Encounter for full-term uncomplicated delivery, O90.89 — Other complications of the puerperium, not elsewhere classified, O99.111 — Other diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism complicating pregnancy, first trimester, O99.112 — Other diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism complicating pregnancy, second trimester, O99.113 — Other diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism complicating pregnancy, third trimester, O99.119 — Other diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester, +200 more

Same clinical category (CCSR)

AHRQ's Clinical Classifications Software groups these diagnoses under the same clinical categories (Complications specified during childbirth, Shock).

O74.1 — Other pulmonary complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.2 — Cardiac complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.3 — Central nervous system complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.4 — Toxic reaction to local anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.5 — Spinal and epidural anesthesia-induced headache during labor and delivery, O74.6 — Other complications of spinal and epidural anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.7 — Failed or difficult intubation for anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.8 — Other complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery, O74.9 — Complication of anesthesia during labor and delivery, unspecified, O75.0 — Maternal distress during labor and delivery, O75.2 — Pyrexia during labor, not elsewhere classified, O75.3 — Other infection during labor, O75.4 — Other complications of obstetric surgery and procedures, O75.5 — Delayed delivery after artificial rupture of membranes, O75.81 — Maternal exhaustion complicating labor and delivery, O75.82 — Onset (spontaneous) of labor after 37 completed weeks of gestation but before 39 completed weeks gestation, with delivery by (planned) cesarean section, O75.89 — Other specified complications of labor and delivery, O75.9 — Complication of labor and delivery, unspecified, O76 — Abnormality in fetal heart rate and rhythm complicating labor and delivery, O77.0 — Labor and delivery complicated by meconium in amniotic fluid, +106 more

Same Index main term, other category

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

O71.82 — Other specified trauma to perineum and vulva (complicated, by, damage to NEC, vulva), O71.89 — Other specified obstetric trauma (complicated, by, diastasis recti), O71.9 — Obstetric trauma, unspecified (complicated, by, trauma), O72.0 — Third-stage hemorrhage (complicated, by, adherent placenta), O72.1 — Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage (complicated, by, hemorrhage, postpartum NEC), O72.2 — Delayed and secondary postpartum hemorrhage (complicated, by, retention of secundines, partial), O73.0 — Retained placenta without hemorrhage (complicated, by, adherent placenta, without hemorrhage), O73.1 — Retained portions of placenta and membranes, without hemorrhage (complicated, by, retention of secundines, partial, without hemorrhage), O74.1 — Other pulmonary complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery (lung, pressure due to anesthesiaor other sedation, during labor and delivery), O74.8 — Other complications of anesthesia during labor and delivery (complicated, by, anesthetic death), O76 — Abnormality in fetal heart rate and rhythm complicating labor and delivery (complicated, by, depressed fetal heart tones), O77.0 — Labor and delivery complicated by meconium in amniotic fluid (complicated, by, meconium in amniotic fluid), O77.1 — Fetal stress in labor or delivery due to drug administration (complicated, by, fetal, stress, due to drug administration), O77.8 — Labor and delivery complicated by other evidence of fetal stress (complicated, by, fetal, hypoxia), O77.9 — Labor and delivery complicated by fetal stress, unspecified (complicated, by, fetal, stress), O80 — Encounter for full-term uncomplicated delivery (normal), O82 — Encounter for cesarean delivery without indication (cesarean, without indication), O89.09 — Other pulmonary complications of anesthesia during the puerperium (lung, pressure due to anesthesiaor other sedation, postpartum, puerperal), O98.02 — Tuberculosis complicating childbirth (complicated, by, tuberculosis), O98.12 — Syphilis complicating childbirth (complicated, by, syphilis), +245 more

Contextual Map

Every relationship of O75.1 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

Clinical classification (CCSR)

MS-DRG Grouper

  • MCC — Major Complication or Comorbidity [MS-DRG severity]: “As a secondary diagnosis this code can raise the stay's MS-DRG severity tier (MCC).”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix C) · FY2027
  • DRG 998 — PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS INVALID AS DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS[MS-DRG]: “PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS INVALID AS DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS (MDC 14)”— CMS MS-DRG Definitions Manual (Appendix B) · FY2027

Index entries

  • Collapse, circulatory (peripheral), during or after labor and delivery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Collapse, during or, after labor and delivery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Collapse, vascular (peripheral), during or after labor and delivery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Delivery (childbirth) (labor), complicated, by, shock[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Shock, during or after labor and delivery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Shock, following, labor and delivery[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027
  • Shock, obstetric[Index term]— CMS ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries · icd10cm-fy2027

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

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 (7)

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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Change history

  • FY2016 — October 1, 2015
    In the code set at ICD-10-CM adoption
    Shock during or following labor and delivery

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 O75.1 in its code family, with their registry titles.

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