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ICD-10 Code O98.71: Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy
Reviewed by HealthAssure Clinical TeamUpdated 21 May 2026
What is this code?
ICD-10 entries help standardize how diagnoses are organized for coding, reporting, analytics, and documentation. 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 HIV disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium. The most accurate code depends on maternal timing and whether trimester, delivery, or postpartum context is clearly documented.
When is it used?
- May be used when a clinician documents human immunodeficiency virus [hiv] disease complicating pregnancy in a patient's medical record.
- May appear in hospital records, claims, referrals, and clinical documentation.
- This code may act more like a grouping or parent code, so a more specific child code may be used in final documentation when available.
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.
- This entry may represent a broader category rather than the most specific billable code.
đź©şClinical context
When commonly used
- Obstetric, maternal-fetal medicine, infectious-disease, inpatient, and follow-up documentation where maternal HIV disease materially affects pregnancy management, delivery planning, or postpartum recovery.
- Coding and utilization-review workflows where the chart clearly ties maternal HIV disease to pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium and timing changes the final complication code.
Common workup
- Related procedures or service context already linked on this page include Obstetric ultrasound, Fetal nonstress testing.
Common management context
- Maternal HIV-disease follow-up often includes infectious-disease treatment planning, medication review, laboratory monitoring context, obstetric follow-up, and coordination of delivery or postpartum care.
- Documentation usually becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester timing, delivery timing, puerperium context, treatment status, viral-suppression context, or associated maternal complications elsewhere in the record.
- Specialist context already linked on this page includes Obstetrician, Gynecologist.
🔍Key distinctions
Important notes
- This ICD-10 family captures maternal HIV disease as a pregnancy-related complication, and the distinction between pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium timing is part of what makes these codes different from one another.
- Trimester detail matters for pregnancy-coded cases, while delivery and postpartum timing matter for childbirth and puerperium-coded cases.
- This title reflects maternal HIV disease complicating pregnancy, which is coded separately from HIV disease complicating childbirth or the puerperium because maternal timing changes code specificity.
Related codes to consider
O98.711Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, first trimester
Related maternal HIV-disease ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester detail, pregnancy versus delivery versus puerperium timing, treatment status, or viral-suppression context.
O98.712Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, second trimester
Related maternal HIV-disease ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester detail, pregnancy versus delivery versus puerperium timing, treatment status, or viral-suppression context.
O98.713Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, third trimester
Related maternal HIV-disease ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester detail, pregnancy versus delivery versus puerperium timing, treatment status, or viral-suppression context.
O98.719Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimester
Related maternal HIV-disease ICD-10 code; documentation often becomes more specific when the chart identifies trimester detail, pregnancy versus delivery versus puerperium timing, treatment status, or viral-suppression context.
Code hierarchy
chapter
15Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
block
O94-O9AOther obstetric conditions, not elsewhere classified
category
O98Maternal infectious and parasitic diseases classifiable elsewhere but complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
category
O98.7Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
currentO98.7
Where you may see this code
You may see this entry in coding references, medical records, or claims workflows when a broader diagnosis category is being reviewed before a more specific code is chosen.
Related specialists
ObstetricianGynecologist
Related procedures
Obstetric ultrasound
May appear in pregnancy follow-up pathways when maternal infection complicates pregnancy and fetal well-being is monitored.
Fetal nonstress testing
May be used in selected higher-risk pregnancy monitoring pathways.
Related codes
O98.711Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, first trimestercodeO98.712Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, second trimestercodeO98.713Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, third trimestercodeO98.719Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy, unspecified trimestercode
Sibling codes
Coding guidelines
Common synonyms
Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease complicating pregnancy
Frequently asked questions
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