O02.0 vs O02.8
O02.0 and O02.8 can never be reported together. ICD-10-CM declares them mutually exclusive with an Excludes1 note, meaning the two conditions cannot occur in the same patient — so exactly one of them is correct for any given encounter.
The official note, declared on O02.8
abnormal products of conception with blighted ovum (O02.0)
O02.0
Blighted ovum and nonhydatidiform mole
Billable
- Chapter 15
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- Section
- O00-O08
Use when the record says
- Carneous mole
- Fleshy mole
- Intrauterine mole NOS
- Molar pregnancy NEC
- Pathological ovum
Indexed under
- Blighted ovum
- Breus' mole
- Carneous mole
- Fleshy mole
- Molar pregnancy
O02.8
Other specified abnormal products of conception
Not billable
- Chapter 15
- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
- Section
- O00-O08
Excludes1 is not always absolute: where two conditions covered by the note are genuinely unrelated, CMS guidance permits reporting both. Document the reasoning rather than assuming it. More on Excludes1 vs Excludes2 · FY2027