Primary inadequate contractions
Billable / specific
O62.0 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
- Failure of cervical dilatation
- Primary hypotonic uterine dysfunction
- Uterine inertia during latent phase of labor
Includes (from O62)
- 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
- Failure of cervical dilatation
- Primary hypotonic uterine dysfunction
- Uterine inertia during latent phase of labor
- Contraction, contracture, contracted, uterus, inadequate, primary
- Delivery, cesarean, inertia, uterus, primary
- Delivery, cesarean, poor dilatation, cervix
- Delivery, complicated, by incomplete dilatation
- Dilatation, cervix, incomplete, poor, slow complicating delivery
- Dysfunction, uterus, complicating delivery, hypotonic, primary
- Dystocia, cervical, primary
- Failure, failed, cervical dilatation in labor
- Inertia, uterus, uterine during labor, during latent phase of labor
- Inertia, uterus, uterine during labor, primary
Parent code
- O62Abnormalities of forces of laborHeader