O90.4
Header — not billablePostpartum acute kidney failure
The ICD-10 code for postpartum acute kidney failure is O90.4.
O90.4 is a non-billable header code. It groups related conditions but cannot be used on its own for reimbursement — select one of the 2 more specific codes below.
Clinical notes
Excludes1 (not coded here)
An Excludes1 note is a pure exclusion: the excluded condition and this code should never be reported together, because the two conditions cannot occur at the same time (e.g. a congenital form vs. an acquired form of the same disease).
- anuria and oliguria (R34)
Documentation support
General coding-documentation guidance — not a substitute for payer-specific requirements or professional coding judgment.
- •This is a non-billable header code. Documentation must support a more specific child code before this diagnosis can be reported on a claim.
- •Confirm the excluded condition(s) listed above are not also present — Excludes1 conditions cannot be coded together with this one.
- •As a general rule, code to the highest level of specificity supported by the documentation in the medical record.
Related codes in this category
- O90.0Disruption of cesarean delivery wound
- O90.1Disruption of perineal obstetric wound
- O90.2Hematoma of obstetric wound
- O90.3Peripartum cardiomyopathy
- O90.5Postpartum thyroiditis
- O90.6Postpartum mood disturbance
- O90.8Other complications of the puerperium, not elsewhere classifiednon-billable header
- O90.9Complication of the puerperium, unspecified
- O90.4Postpartum acute kidney failurenon-billable header
ICD-9-CM equivalent
Informational only — GEM mappings are approximate, not guaranteed one-to-one equivalents. Verify before use in billing.
- 66932Approximate match
- 66934Approximate match
- 66930Approximate match