Postpartum coagulation defects
Billable / specific
O72.3 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
- Postpartum afibrinogenemia
- Postpartum fibrinolysis
Includes (from O72)
- hemorrhage after delivery of fetus or infant
- 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
- Postpartum afibrinogenemia
- Postpartum fibrinolysis
- Afibrinogenemia, puerperal
- Blood, dyscrasia, puerperal, postpartum
- Circulating anticoagulants, following childbirth
- Defect, defective, coagulation, postpartum, with hemorrhage
- Defibrination, postpartum
- Deficiency, deficient, coagulation NOS, postpartum
- Disorder, hemorrhagic NEC, following childbirth
- Dyscrasia, blood, puerperal, postpartum
- Fibrinolysis, postpartum
- Hemolysis, intravascular, postpartum
- Puerperal, puerperium, afibrinogenemia, or other coagulation defect
- Puerperal, puerperium, blood dyscrasia
- Puerperal, puerperium, coagulopathy, with hemorrhage
- Puerperal, puerperium, thrombocytopenia
- Syndrome, defibrination, postpartum
Parent code
- O72Postpartum hemorrhageHeader