O65.5
Obstructed labor due to abnormality of maternal pelvic organs
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 5 never code together
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Excludes1 — never code together. The excluded condition and this one are mutually exclusive.
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 9
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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
Index entries leading here 18
- Pregnancy (single) (uterine) Z33.1
- Delivery (childbirth) (labor)
- complicated O75.9
- cesarean (for)
- Prolapse, prolapsed
- Atresia, atretic
- Bicornate or bicornis uterus Q51.3
- Septum, septate (congenital) — see also Anomaly, by site
- Stenosis, stenotic (cicatricial) — see also Stricture
- Stricture — see also Stenosis
- Tumor — see also Neoplasm, unspecified behavior, by site
- vulva or perineum, in pregnancy or childbirth — see Pregnancy, complicated by
- causing obstructed labor O65.5
- vulva or perineum, in pregnancy or childbirth — see Pregnancy, complicated by
- Cyst (colloid) (mucous) (simple) (retention)
- Cystocele (-urethrocele)
- Deformity Q89.9
- Double
- Fibroid (tumor) — see also Neoplasm, connective tissue, benign
- Fibromyoma — see also Neoplasm, connective tissue, benign
- uterus (corpus) — see also Leiomyoma, uterus
- in pregnancy or childbirth — see Fibroid, in pregnancy or childbirth
- causing obstructed labor O65.5
- in pregnancy or childbirth — see Fibroid, in pregnancy or childbirth
- uterus (corpus) — see also Leiomyoma, uterus
- Fibrosis, fibrotic
- Incarceration, incarcerated
- Malformation (congenital) — see also Anomaly
Alongside this code 7 same parent — O65
O65.0 Obstructed labor due to deformed pelvis O65.1 Obstructed labor due to generally contracted pelvis O65.2 Obstructed labor due to pelvic inlet contraction O65.3 Obst labor due to pelvic outlet and mid-cavity contrctn O65.4 Obstructed labor due to fetopelvic disproportion, unsp O65.8 Obstructed labor due to other maternal pelvic abnormalities O65.9 Obstructed labor due to maternal pelvic abnormality, unsp
Additional references
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Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.