Z37.1
Single stillbirth
Billable FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 1 never code together
Instructional notes 4
Z37code
Inclusion terms
- This category is intended for use as an additional code to identify the outcome of delivery on the mother's record. It is not for use on the newborn record.
Z00-Z99chapter
Notes
- Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:Z00-Z99A00-Y89
- (a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
- (b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Alongside this code 8 same parent — Z37
Z37.0 Single live birth Z37.2 Twins, both liveborn Z37.3 Twins, one liveborn and one stillborn Z37.4 Twins, both stillborn Z37.5 Other multiple births, all liveborn category Z37.6 Other multiple births, some liveborn category Z37.7 Other multiple births, all stillborn Z37.9 Outcome of delivery, unspecified
Additional references
AHA Coding Clinic® Licence required
Official coding advice for this code. Published by the American Hospital Association. Not included in this installation.