Prolonged pregnancy
Billable / specific
O48.1 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Pregnancy which has advanced beyond 42 completed weeks gestation
Includes (from O48)
- Note: CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Note: Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Note: Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- Note: 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- Note: 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- Note: 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- Pregnancy which has advanced beyond 42 completed weeks gestation
- Post-dates, more than 42 weeks gestation
- Postmaturity, postmature, maternal
- Post-term, more than 42 weeks gestation
- Pregnancy, complicated by, postmaturity, more than 42 completed weeks gestation
- Pregnancy, postmature, more than 42 weeks gestation
- Pregnancy, prolonged
- Prolonged, prolongation, gestation, mother
- Prolonged, prolongation, pregnancy