Z48.00Billable
Encounter for change or removal of nonsurgical wound dressing
Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Inclusion Terms
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Inclusion Terms
- •Encounter for change or removal of wound dressing NOS
Billable Code
Z48.00 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
Referenced in Diagnoses
Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation
View documentation for dressing change
dressing change
View TemplatesDressing Change for Wound Care
View documentation for healing wound
healing wound
View TemplatesWound Healing Process
View documentation for wound dressing
wound dressing
View TemplatesWound Dressing Management
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:
Excludes1
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Excludes1
From Z48:
- •encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment (Z08-Z09)
- •encounter for aftercare following injury - code to Injury, by site, with appropriate 7th character for subsequent encounter
From Z48.0:
- •encounter for planned postprocedural wound closure (Z48.1)
Notes
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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.