Code
Hierarchy
Notes
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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:
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(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.
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(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.
Inclusion Terms
Z96.29
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Presence of bone-conduction hearing device
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Presence of eustachian tube stent
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Stapes replacement
Code Also
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any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)
Excludes 2
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complications of internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts (T82-T85)
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fitting and adjustment of prosthetic and other devices (Z44-Z46)