O24
Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 7 never code together
Instructional notes 7
O00-O9Achapter
Notes
- CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- 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)
- Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Use additional code
- code, if applicable, from category Z3A, Weeks of gestation, to identify the specific week of the pregnancy, if known.Z3A
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Subordinate codes 6
O24.0 Pre-exist type 1 diabetes, in preg, chldbrth and the puerp O24.1 Pre-exist type 2 diabetes, in preg, chldbrth and the puerp O24.3 Unsp pre-exist diabetes in pregnancy, chldbrth and the puerp O24.4 Gestational diabetes mellitus O24.8 Oth pre-exist diabetes in pregnancy, chldbrth, and the puerp O24.9 Unsp diabetes in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Medications 4
232 Diabetes Mellitus drugs 81 Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 drugs 49 Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 drugs 1315 Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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