O86.0Infection of obstetric surgical wound
ICD-10-CM category (non-billable header) code — part of Complications predominantly related to the puerperium (O85-O92)
Coding Notes
Inclusion Terms
- Infected cesarean delivery wound following delivery
- Infected perineal repair following delivery
Excludes1 (never code both together)
- complications of procedures, not elsewhere classified (T81.4-)
- postprocedural fever NOS (R50.82)
- postprocedural retroperitoneal abscess (K68.11)
Subcategories (6)
- O86.00 Infection of obstetric surgical wound, unspecified
- O86.01 Infct of obstetric surgical wound, superfic incisional site
- O86.02 Infection of obstetric surgical wound, deep incisional site
- O86.03 Infection of obstetric surgical wound, organ and space site
- O86.04 Sepsis following an obstetrical procedure
- O86.09 Infection of obstetric surgical wound, other surgical site