Z18.12Billable
Retained nonmagnetic metal fragments
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Billable Code
Z18.12 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Additional Information from Parent Codes
The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.
Parent Codes Referenced:
Includes
3 items
Includes
From Z18:
- •embedded fragment (status)
- •embedded splinter (status)
- •retained foreign body status
Excludes1
9 items
Excludes1
From Z18:
- •artificial joint prosthesis status (Z96.6-)
- •foreign body accidentally left during a procedure (T81.5-)
- •foreign body entering through orifice (T15-T19)
- •in situ cardiac device (Z95.-)
- •
- •organ or tissue replaced by transplant (Z94.-)
- •personal history of retained foreign body fully removed Z87.821
- •superficial foreign body (non-embedded splinter) - code to superficial foreign body, by site
Notes
3 items
Notes
From Z00-Z99:
- •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.