2025
ICD-10-CM
Diagnosis
Code

O85 Puerperal sepsis

  • Billable
  • 2016–2025

O85 is a billable/specific diagnosis code from the 2025 ICD-10-CM used to classify the following condition: Puerperal sepsis.

Inclusion term

  • Postpartum sepsis

  • Puerperal peritonitis

  • Puerperal pyemia

Use additional code

  • Code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

Type 1 excludes

  • Fever of unknown origin following delivery (O86.4)

  • Obstetric pyemic and septic embolism (O88.3-)

  • Puerperal septic thrombophlebitis (O86.81)

Type 2 excludes

  • Genital tract infection following delivery (O86.1-)

  • Sepsis during labor (O75.3)

  • Urinary tract infection following delivery (O86.2-)

Versions

  1. 2025

    Code changed

    • Type 1 excludes

        • fever of unknown origin following delivery (O86.4)
        • genital tract infection following delivery (O86.1-)
        • obstetric pyemic and septic embolism (O88.3-)
        • puerperal septic thrombophlebitis (O86.81)
        • urinary tract infection following delivery (O86.2-)
        • fever of unknown origin following delivery (O86.4)
        • obstetric pyemic and septic embolism (O88.3-)
        • puerperal septic thrombophlebitis (O86.81)

    • Type 2 excludes

        • sepsis during labor (O75.3)
        • genital tract infection following delivery (O86.1-)
        • sepsis during labor (O75.3)
        • urinary tract infection following delivery (O86.2-)

  2. 2024

    No changes

  3. 2023

    No changes

  4. 2022

    No changes

  5. 2021

    No changes

  6. 2020

    No changes

  7. 2019

    No changes

  8. 2018

    No changes

  9. 2017

    Code changed

    • Use additional code

        • code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent
        • code (R65.2-) to identify severe sepsis, if applicable
        • code (B95-B97), to identify infectious agent

  10. 2016

    New code