O72.0 Third-stage hemorrhage

Billable ICD-10-CM code, FY2026. Acts as a Complication or Comorbidity (CC) as a secondary diagnosis.

Applicable to

• Hemorrhage associated with retained, trapped or adherent placenta
• Retained placenta NOS

Code also

• type of adherent placenta (O43.2-)

Applies from O72 Postpartum hemorrhage

Includes

• hemorrhage after delivery of fetus or infant

MS-DRG index

Defines the logic of DRG(s) 769 in MDC 14.

Approximate ICD-9-CM (GEMs)

• 666.02 Third-stage postpartum hemorrhage, delivered, with mention of postpartum complication (approximate)
• 666.04 Third-stage postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum condition or complication (approximate)

Medicare Code Edits (MCE v43.1 (April 2026))

• Maternity diagnoses (age 9 through 64): Age conflict edit. These diagnoses are clinically expected only in patients age 9 through 64.

Code annotations containing back-references to O72.0

Back-references to O72.0

• Code Also: O43.2 Morbidly adherent placenta ("associated third stage postpartum hemorrhage, if applicable (O72.0)")

Back-references to O72

• Type 2 Excludes: O67 Labor and delivery complicated by intrapartum hemorrhage, not elsewhere classified ("postpartum hemorrhage (O72.-)")

Diagnosis Index entries for O72.0

• Adherent › placenta (with hemorrhage)
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › adherent placenta
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › hemorrhage (uterine) › due to › retained placenta
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › hemorrhage (uterine) › postpartum NEC (atonic) (immediate) › with retained or trapped placenta
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › hemorrhage (uterine) › postpartum NEC (atonic) (immediate) › third stage
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › placenta, placental › adherent (with hemorrhage)
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › placenta, placental › retained (with hemorrhage)
• Delivery (childbirth) (labor) › complicated › by › retention of secundines (with hemorrhage)
• Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) › postpartum NEC (following delivery of placenta) › retained placenta
• Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) › postpartum NEC (following delivery of placenta) › third stage
• Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic (concealed) › third stage (postpartum)
• Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications) › hemorrhage › retained placenta
• Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications) › hemorrhage › third stage
• Puerperal, puerperium (complicated by, complications) › retention › placenta
• Retention › placenta (total) (with hemorrhage)
• Retention › secundines (following delivery) (with hemorrhage)
• Trapped placenta (with hemorrhage)

Nearby codes

• O72 Postpartum hemorrhage
• O72.0 Third-stage hemorrhage (this code)
• O72.1 Other immediate postpartum hemorrhage
• O72.2 Delayed and secondary postpartum hemorrhage
• O72.3 Postpartum coagulation defects