Alphabetic Index FY2027

Z39.0

Encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery

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

BillableComplete code, valid to report

Z39.0 (also written Z390) is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for encounter for care and examination of mother immediately after delivery. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. It is one of the 3 codes in category Z39 (Encounter for maternal postpartum care and examination). The Alphabetic Index lists it under 6 entries. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry.

Excludes1

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

This code
  • care for postpartum complication- see Alphabetic index

Inclusion terms

Conditions classified to this code.

This code
  • Care and observation in uncomplicated cases when the delivery occurs outside a healthcare facility

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.

Alphabetic Index terms

Terms the official Alphabetic Index lists for this code. 6 entries