ICD-10 Code O60.12: Preterm labor second trimester with preterm delivery second trimester
What is this code?
ICD-10 codes are diagnosis classification codes used in healthcare records, reporting, coding workflows, and billing support. This code sits within the broader ICD-10 area for Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A).
đź“‹Clinical overview
This ICD-10 code is commonly used when documentation describes preterm labor or a delivery outcome related to preterm labor. The most accurate code depends on whether preterm labor ends without delivery, with preterm delivery, or with a later term delivery, along with trimester detail.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents preterm labor second trimester with preterm delivery second trimester in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code can be used as a clinically usable diagnosis entry in standardized coding workflows.
What it does not mean
- A code alone does not explain severity, treatment plan, or outcome.
- A medical code should not be treated as a substitute for a doctor's diagnosis or advice.
đź©şClinical context
- Obstetric, labor-and-delivery, emergency, inpatient, and maternal-fetal medicine documentation where uterine activity, cervical change, or delivery timing raises concern for preterm labor.
- Coding and utilization-review workflows where the chart identifies the final delivery outcome and trimester timing for a pregnancy complicated by preterm labor.
- Preterm-labor follow-up often includes contraction and symptom review, cervical assessment, fetal monitoring context, obstetric ultrasound or delivery planning, and coordination of maternal-fetal medicine or labor-and-delivery care.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies whether delivery occurred, whether it was preterm or term, and the trimester in which preterm labor began.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Gastroenterologist.
🔍Key distinctions
- This ICD-10 family captures preterm-labor scenarios where delivery outcome is part of what distinguishes closely related codes.
- No-delivery, preterm-delivery, and term-delivery-after-preterm-labor branches are coded separately from one another, and trimester timing remains important.
- Preterm labor with preterm delivery is coded separately from preterm labor without delivery and from term delivery after preterm labor because the delivery outcome changes code specificity.
- Trimester detail is part of this preterm-labor code choice, so documentation that clearly states the trimester of labor onset and, when relevant, delivery timing affects specificity.
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Where you may see this code
You may see this code in hospital records, discharge summaries, insurance claims, encounter documentation, referrals, or other healthcare billing and coding records.
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