Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z37

Outcome of delivery

FY2027Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services/Z30–Z39 Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction

Non-billable headerNot valid on its own. Use one of the more specific codes under it.

Z37 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code category for outcome of delivery. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are Z37.0 Single live birth; Z37.1 Single stillbirth; Z37.2 Twins, both liveborn; Z37.3 Twins, one liveborn and one stillborn and 5 more. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry.

Guidelines tip

From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.

A Z37 code goes on every maternal record when a delivery has occurred, and never on later records or the newborn record.

Guidelines I.C.15.b.5Outcome of delivery (Z37)Read the official text

Excludes1

Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.

This code
  • stillbirth (P95)

Inclusion terms

Conditions classified to this code.

This code
  • 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.

Notes

Also from chapter/block level (3 notes)
Inherited from Chapter 21 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
  • 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:
    • (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.

More specific codes under Z37 9