Z43Non-billable
Encounter for attention to artificial openings
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Includes
5 items
Includes
5 items- •closure of artificial openings
- •passage of sounds or bougies through artificial openings
- •reforming artificial openings
- •removal of catheter from artificial openings
- •toilet or cleansing of artificial openings
Excludes2
1 item
Excludes2
- •fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)
Coding Guidance
Z43 should not be used for reimbursement purposes as there are more specific codes below it that contain a greater level of detail. See Related Codes to drill down to more specific billable codes for appropriate reimbursement.
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:
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.